On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle of LifeAppleton, 1864 - 440 стор. |
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... point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced , often apparently leading to conclusions di- rectly opposite to those at which I have arrived . A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the ...
... point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced , often apparently leading to conclusions di- rectly opposite to those at which I have arrived . A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the ...
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... points which strikes us , is , that they gen- erally differ much more from each other , than do the in- dividuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature . When we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants and animals which ...
... points which strikes us , is , that they gen- erally differ much more from each other , than do the in- dividuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature . When we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants and animals which ...
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... point of view , Mr. Buckman's recent experiments on plants seem extremely valuable . When all or nearly all the individ- uals exposed to certain conditions are affected in the same way , the change at first appears to be directly due to ...
... point of view , Mr. Buckman's recent experiments on plants seem extremely valuable . When all or nearly all the individ- uals exposed to certain conditions are affected in the same way , the change at first appears to be directly due to ...
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... points in structure and constitution in which the varieties and subvarieties differ slightly from each other . The whole organisation seems to have become plastic , and tends to depart in some small degree from that of the parental type ...
... points in structure and constitution in which the varieties and subvarieties differ slightly from each other . The whole organisation seems to have become plastic , and tends to depart in some small degree from that of the parental type ...
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... point , if it could be cleared up , would be interesting ; if , for instance , it could be shown that the greyhound , bloodhound , terrier , spaniel , and bull - dog , which we all know propagate their kind so truly , were the offspring ...
... point , if it could be cleared up , would be interesting ; if , for instance , it could be shown that the greyhound , bloodhound , terrier , spaniel , and bull - dog , which we all know propagate their kind so truly , were the offspring ...
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Сторінка 424 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Сторінка 63 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Сторінка 79 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Сторінка 70 - I counted thirtytwo little trees ; and one of them, with twenty-six rings of growth, had during many years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed. No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Yet the heath was so extremely barren and so extensive that no one would ever have imagined that cattle would have so closely and effectually searched it for food. Here we see that cattle absolutely determine the...
Сторінка 169 - If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Сторінка 63 - Hence as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life.
Сторінка 167 - To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
Сторінка 378 - Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the 'Nature of Limbs.
Сторінка 187 - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
Сторінка 165 - I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.