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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... Increase , so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life , and as a consequence to Natural Selection , entailing Di- vergence of Character , and the Extinction of the less improved forms . Thus , from the war of nature , from famine and ...
... Increase , so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life , and as a consequence to Natural Selection , entailing Di- vergence of Character , and the Extinction of the less improved forms . Thus , from the war of nature , from famine and ...
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... increased length of the horns in the offspring from a short - horned cow by a long - horned bull , though appearing late in life , is clearly due to the male ele- ment . Having alluded to the subject of reversion , I may here refer to a ...
... increased length of the horns in the offspring from a short - horned cow by a long - horned bull , though appearing late in life , is clearly due to the male ele- ment . Having alluded to the subject of reversion , I may here refer to a ...
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... increased in weight and in early maturity , compared with the stock formerly in this country . By comparing the accounts given in various old treatises of the former and present state of carrier and tumbler pigeons in Britain , India ...
... increased in weight and in early maturity , compared with the stock formerly in this country . By comparing the accounts given in various old treatises of the former and present state of carrier and tumbler pigeons in Britain , India ...
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... increased size and beauty which we now see in the varieties of the heartsease , rose , pelargonium , dahlia , and other plants , when compared with the older varieties or with their parent - stocks . No one would ever expect to get a ...
... increased size and beauty which we now see in the varieties of the heartsease , rose , pelargonium , dahlia , and other plants , when compared with the older varieties or with their parent - stocks . No one would ever expect to get a ...
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... increase . Every being , which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds , must suffer destruction during some period of its life , and during some season or occasional year , otherwise , on the principle of geometrical ...
... increase . Every being , which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds , must suffer destruction during some period of its life , and during some season or occasional year , otherwise , on the principle of geometrical ...
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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.