Charles Darwin's Works: The origin of species by means of natural selection...with additions and corrections from 6th and last English edD. Appleton, 1896 |
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... migration fro American to the European seas . In examini latest deposits in various quarters of the world everywhere been noted , that some few still species are common in the deposit , but have extinct in the immediately surrounding ...
... migration fro American to the European seas . In examini latest deposits in various quarters of the world everywhere been noted , that some few still species are common in the deposit , but have extinct in the immediately surrounding ...
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... migrations of species and to geographical changes . And in the distant future , a geologist , examining these beds , would be tempted to conclude that the average duration of life of the embedded fossils had been less than that of the ...
... migrations of species and to geographical changes . And in the distant future , a geologist , examining these beds , would be tempted to conclude that the average duration of life of the embedded fossils had been less than that of the ...
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... migrate , and no closely consecutive record of their modifications could be preserved in any one formation . Very many of the marine inhabitants of the archi- pelago now range thousands of miles beyond its con- fines ; and analogy ...
... migrate , and no closely consecutive record of their modifications could be preserved in any one formation . Very many of the marine inhabitants of the archi- pelago now range thousands of miles beyond its con- fines ; and analogy ...
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... migration from a distinct geo- graphical province , seems satisfactory . These several facts accord well with our theory , which includes no fixed law of development , causing all the 90 [ CHAP . XI . THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION.
... migration from a distinct geo- graphical province , seems satisfactory . These several facts accord well with our theory , which includes no fixed law of development , causing all the 90 [ CHAP . XI . THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION.
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... migration has played an important part in the first appearance of new forms in any one area and formation ; that widely ranging species are those which have varied most frequently , and have oftenest given rise to new species ; that ...
... migration has played an important part in the first appearance of new forms in any one area and formation ; that widely ranging species are those which have varied most frequently , and have oftenest given rise to new species ; that ...
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Сторінка 305 - 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 304 - Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity...
Сторінка 277 - That many breeds produced by man have to a large extent the character of natural species, is shown by the inextricable doubts whether many of them are varieties or aboriginally distinct species. There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature.
Сторінка 296 - I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. ... [B]ut I look with confidence to the future, — to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.
Сторінка 293 - This has been effected chiefly through the. natural selection of numerous successive, slight, favourable variations; aided in an important manner by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts ; and in an* unimportant manner, that is in relation to adaptive structures, whether past or present, by the direct action of external conditions, and by variations which seem to us in our ignorance to arise spontaneously.
Сторінка 302 - ... will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view. We possess no pedigrees 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.
Сторінка 299 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Сторінка 281 - ... increasing in size, for the world would not hold them, the more dominant groups beat the less dominant. This tendency in the large groups to go on increasing in size and diverging in character, together with the...
Сторінка 304 - 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 233 - 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