The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer ...Doubleday, Page, 1902 - 173 стор. |
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... animals and plants of one era are more allied to those immediately next than to those of remoter times . He thus divines that he is but exploring the proofs of lineal descent , and with this thought in his mind he finds that the ...
... animals and plants of one era are more allied to those immediately next than to those of remoter times . He thus divines that he is but exploring the proofs of lineal descent , and with this thought in his mind he finds that the ...
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... Animals tend to increase in geometrical ratio . Varieties diverge in consonance with diversity of opportunity for ... animal and another which gives the. ix.
... Animals tend to increase in geometrical ratio . Varieties diverge in consonance with diversity of opportunity for ... animal and another which gives the. ix.
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... animals that com- munity of descent is strongly suggested . Man , like other creatures , is subject to the struggle ... ANIMALS The colours of animals are useful for concealment from their prey , from the creatures upon which they prey ...
... animals that com- munity of descent is strongly suggested . Man , like other creatures , is subject to the struggle ... ANIMALS The colours of animals are useful for concealment from their prey , from the creatures upon which they prey ...
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... birds , butterflies and other animals . With birds it has often rendered the voice of the male to the female , as well as to our ears . Flowers and fruit have been rendered conspicu- ous by brilliant. Masterpieces of Science.
... birds , butterflies and other animals . With birds it has often rendered the voice of the male to the female , as well as to our ears . Flowers and fruit have been rendered conspicu- ous by brilliant. Masterpieces of Science.
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... animals , that is , how the sense of beauty in its simplest form was first acquired , we do not know any more than how certain odours and flavours were first rendered agreeable . As natural selection acts by competition , it adopts and ...
... animals , that is , how the sense of beauty in its simplest form was first acquired , we do not know any more than how certain odours and flavours were first rendered agreeable . As natural selection acts by competition , it adopts and ...
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Сторінка 37 - I happened to read for amusement 'Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
Сторінка 34 - 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 68 - Important as the struggle for existence ha^s been and even still is, yet as far as the highest part of man's nature is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection ; though to this latter agency the social instincts, which afforded the basis for the development of the moral sense, may be safely attributed.
Сторінка 33 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction, Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Сторінка 29 - ... the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting — I speak from experience — does the study of natural history become!
Сторінка 46 - ... man is descended from some less highly organized form. The grounds upon which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance — the rudiments which he retains, and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable — are facts which cannot be disputed.
Сторінка 29 - We possess no pedigree or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long-lost structures. Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. Embryology will often reveal to us the...
Сторінка 41 - I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones. Owing to this habit, very few objections were raised against my views which I had not at least noticed and attempted to answer.
Сторінка 32 - 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 38 - The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature.