 | Daniel Pick - 1989 - 292 стор.
...ideologies had to face up to the inexorable law of evolution, a gloomier law than was first appreciated: it is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection . . . Retrogressive is as practicable as progressive metamorphosis. (p. 17) But even when Thomas Huxley's... | |
 | Richard Hauer Costa - 1994 - 252 стор.
...against matter. If, as Huxley believed — I am here quoting from "Ethics and Evolution" — "evolution involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions, retrogressive change is both as possible and practicable as progressive. The course of earthly life... | |
 | Arthur Herman - 1997 - 538 стор.
...Huxley, Darwin's disciple, conducted pioneering research into dinosaur fossils that led him to conclude: "It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection Retrogressive is as practicable as progressive metamorphosis."7 * The first remains of Neanderthal... | |
 | Patricia Murphy - 2001 - 318 стор.
...followers warned that natural selection could bring devolution as well as evolution, claiming that it was "an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection" (199). Biologist E. Ray Lankester cautioned that the "tacit assumption of progress" was "an unreasoning... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - 2003 - 276 стор.
...Descent of Man and elsewhere. 5. So, too, in "Social Diseases and Worse Remedies" (1891), Huxley insists: "it is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. . . . Retrogressive is as practicable as progressive metamorphosis" (9:199). Usually optimistic, Darwin... | |
 | Peter McDonald - 2004 - 228 стор.
...Bishop Samuel Wilberforce at the Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford. 30 June (1860) It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. ïocial Diseases and Worse Remedies 'The Struggle for Existence in Human Society' If he is to allowed... | |
 | Husain Sarkar - 2007 - 9 стор.
...Thomas H. Huxley said (and what, in our day, Stephen Jay Gould used to admonish): "And, again, it is in error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant...perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 926 стор.
...the fact that, some millions of years afterward, one of his descendants wins the Derby. And, again, it is an error to imagine that evolution signifies...perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant re-adjustment of the organism in adaptation to new conditions ; but it depends on the nature of those... | |
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And, again, it is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those... 
