 | Douglas Dewar, Frank Finn - 1909 - 452 стор.
...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 the exclusive means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation ; but the history of science... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - 1910 - 472 стор.
...much careful examination and experimentation. In conclusion Mr. Darwin makes the following statement: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." In one of the excerpts given above this language is used : " But if variations useful to any organic... | |
 | Robert William Hegner - 1910 - 434 стор.
...claimed for the theory, even by Darwin, for he says, in the introduction to the Origin of Species, " I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main, but not the exclusive, means of modification " (236). THE THEORY OF ORTHOGENESIS. —Many phenomena of the evolution of organisms cannot be explained... | |
 | 1912 - 890 стор.
...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 the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great Is the power of steady misrepresentation; hut the history of science... | |
 | John Watson - 1912 - 362 стор.
...are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, just as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. In the " struggle for existence," those survive which are best adapted to the environment ; and, by... | |
 | 1861 - 712 стор.
...same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species." (Page 13.) This is quite a moderate statement of the theory ; and in reading the book we are led to... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - 1912 - 478 стор.
...position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : - I am convinced tbat natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.' This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation ; but the history of science... | |
 | Lawrence Joseph Henderson - 1913 - 360 стор.
...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 the exclusive means of modification.' " — CHARLES DARWIN, "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection." New York, reprinted from... | |
 | Hugh LaFollette, Niall Shanks - 1996 - 300 стор.
...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 the exclusive means of modification." This has been to no avail. Great is the power of misrepresentation ([1859] 1972:115). Some Darwinists... | |
 | Gary Cziko - 1997 - 404 стор.
...Lamarck. As he stated in the first edition of the Origin and repeatedly emphasized in later editions, "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification."4 We will see later that he also did not reject a providential account of life's initial... | |
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I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally... 
