Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - 351 стор. |
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... young shoot at the extremity of the stem is at the same time bent to one side , so as to be out of the way . The young leaves of clematis , on the other hand , prepare for action by tem- porarily curving themselves downward , so as to ...
... young shoot at the extremity of the stem is at the same time bent to one side , so as to be out of the way . The young leaves of clematis , on the other hand , prepare for action by tem- porarily curving themselves downward , so as to ...
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... that at the same time there was no need for all the individuals to produce young , and conse- quently that no injury , on the contrary , good 14 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF . Why the Sexes have been reseparated.
... that at the same time there was no need for all the individuals to produce young , and conse- quently that no injury , on the contrary , good 14 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF . Why the Sexes have been reseparated.
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... young leaves , namely , unequal growth on the opposite sides ( as first proved by Pfeffer ) , yet they differ essentially in being excited chiefly by changes of temperature instead of light ; and in being effected , as far as we can ...
... young leaves , namely , unequal growth on the opposite sides ( as first proved by Pfeffer ) , yet they differ essentially in being excited chiefly by changes of temperature instead of light ; and in being effected , as far as we can ...
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... Young seedlings , which , as we know , cir- cumnutate rapidly , are eminently sensitive ; and we have seen the hypocotyl of Beta bending upward through 109 ° in three hours and eight minutes . The after - effects of apogeotropism last ...
... Young seedlings , which , as we know , cir- cumnutate rapidly , are eminently sensitive ; and we have seen the hypocotyl of Beta bending upward through 109 ° in three hours and eight minutes . The after - effects of apogeotropism last ...
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... young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults have lost this power . As the larger ground - feeding birds seldom take flight , except to escape danger , it is probable that the nearly wingless condition of ...
... young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults have lost this power . As the larger ground - feeding birds seldom take flight , except to escape danger , it is probable that the nearly wingless condition of ...
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Сторінка i - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 347 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Сторінка 110 - 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 possible degree.
Сторінка 72 - The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
Сторінка 254 - It is incredible that all these facts should speak falsely. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.
Сторінка 44 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
Сторінка 308 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not thé exclusive means of modification.