climatal

Suppose, for example, a return of the glacial epoch and a spread of polar climatal conditions over the whole globe.

Essays 2007

The sooty blackness of the skin, the mop-like head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, the marked form of countenance of quite a different type from that of the Malay, are what we cannot believe to result from mere climatal or other modifying influences on one and the same race.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

It is further to be noted — and this is a very interesting point in connection with theories of the dependence of special forms of life on external conditions — that this division of the Archipelago into two regions characterised by a striking diversity in their natural productions does not in any way correspond to the main physical or climatal divisions of the surface.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Halve, or quarter, this estimate if you will, in order to be certain of erring upon the right side, and still there remains a prodigious period during which the ancestors of existing coral polypes have been undisturbedly at work; and during which, therefore, the climatal conditions over the coral area must have been much what they are now.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Temperature and climatal changes in general seem not to be without effect, as has been already mentioned in the case of _Arenaria tetraquetra_, which is polygamous when growing in mountain districts.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

As the earth has gone through its grand cycles of geological, climatal, and organic progress, every form of life has been subject to its irresistible action, and has been continually but imperceptibly moulded into such new shapes as would preserve their harmony with the ever-changing universe.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Munich suffers more at every visitation than almost any other European city, and typhus, which is always at home within its limits, are not, properly speaking, climatal diseases, it would seem at first sight unnecessary to consider the situation of Munich in this respect.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

"Natural Selection," or heredity, and other even than merely geographical, climatal, or any simply external conditions.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

But the Miocene and Eocene periods were certainly warm, and these alpine plants could hardly have migrated over tropical forest lands, while it is very improbable that if they had been isolated at so remote a period, exposed to such distinct climatal and organic environments as in Madagascar and Abyssinia, they would have in both places retained their specific characters unchanged.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

_Honckenya peploides_ affords another illustration of the sexual arrangements in the flower being altered as it would seem by climatal conditions.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters