Selections from "The Origin of Species", "The Descent of Man", "The Espressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals", "Animals and Plants", "Insectivorous Plants" and "The Formation of Vegetable Mould"Street & Smith, 1902 - Всего страниц: 213 |
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... advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stands in the closest relation to the land being already thickly clothed with other plants ; so that the seeds may be widely distributed and fall on un- occupied ground . In the water - beetle , the ...
... advantage of plumed seeds no doubt stands in the closest relation to the land being already thickly clothed with other plants ; so that the seeds may be widely distributed and fall on un- occupied ground . In the water - beetle , the ...
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... advantage to our plant ; but we have reason to believe that only a few plants or animals range so far , that they ... advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies . It is good thus to try in imagination to give to any one ...
... advantage to our plant ; but we have reason to believe that only a few plants or animals range so far , that they ... advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies . It is good thus to try in imagination to give to any one ...
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... advantage over others ; and still further modifications of the same kind would often still further in- crease the advantage , as long as the species continued under the same conditions of life and profited by similar means of ...
... advantage over others ; and still further modifications of the same kind would often still further in- crease the advantage , as long as the species continued under the same conditions of life and profited by similar means of ...
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... advantage , for the good of an- other species ; and though statements to this effect may be found in works of natural history , I cannot find one case which will bear investi- gation . A structure used only once in an ani- mal's life ...
... advantage , for the good of an- other species ; and though statements to this effect may be found in works of natural history , I cannot find one case which will bear investi- gation . A structure used only once in an ani- mal's life ...
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... advantage of what has been called the " physiological di- vision of labor ; " hence we may believe that it would be advantageous to a plant to produce stamens alone in one flower or on one whole plant , and pistils alone in another ...
... advantage of what has been called the " physiological di- vision of labor ; " hence we may believe that it would be advantageous to a plant to produce stamens alone in one flower or on one whole plant , and pistils alone in another ...
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Стр. 150 - Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Стр. 40 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Стр. xi - Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of lessimproved forms.
Стр. 32 - ... the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined, in the course of centuries, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins...
Стр. 40 - Nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity...
Стр. 93 - Thus at last man comes to feel through acquired and perhaps inherited habit, that it is best for him to obey his more persistent instincts. The imperious word ought...
Стр. 105 - The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians. The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection...
Стр. 96 - They collect food for the community, and when an object, too large for entrance, is brought to the nest, they enlarge the door, and afterwards build it up again.
Стр. 38 - No country can be named in which all the native inhabitants are now so perfectly adapted to each other and to the physical conditions under which they live, that none of them could...
Стр. 19 - would ever try to make a fantail till he saw a pigeon with a tail developed in some slight degree in an unusual manner, or a pouter until he saw a pigeon with a crop of unusual size.