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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... a Tail . Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals Social Instincts The Habits of Ants Sexual Selection Conclusion . V 55 59 62 66 72 48282 76 89 95 • 97 105 THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS .
... a Tail . Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals Social Instincts The Habits of Ants Sexual Selection Conclusion . V 55 59 62 66 72 48282 76 89 95 • 97 105 THE EXPRESSIONS OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS .
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... instincts . Many cultivated plants dis- play the utmost vigor , and yet rarely or never seed ! In some few cases it has been dis- covered that a very trifling change , such as a little more or less water at some particular period of ...
... instincts . Many cultivated plants dis- play the utmost vigor , and yet rarely or never seed ! In some few cases it has been dis- covered that a very trifling change , such as a little more or less water at some particular period of ...
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... instincts . No doubt it is often difficult to distinguish between the power of reason and that of instinct . For instance , Dr. Hayes , in his work on " The Open Polar Sea , " repeatedly remarks that his dogs , in- stead of continuing ...
... instincts . No doubt it is often difficult to distinguish between the power of reason and that of instinct . For instance , Dr. Hayes , in his work on " The Open Polar Sea , " repeatedly remarks that his dogs , in- stead of continuing ...
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... instinct ? This instinct may possibly have arisen since the time , long ago , when dogs were first em- ployed by the natives in drawing their sledges ; or the Arctic wolves , the parent - stock of the Esquimaux dog , may have acquired ...
... instinct ? This instinct may possibly have arisen since the time , long ago , when dogs were first em- ployed by the natives in drawing their sledges ; or the Arctic wolves , the parent - stock of the Esquimaux dog , may have acquired ...
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... instinct or inherited habit , as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature . Now , what is the ... instincts in common . All have the same senses , intuitions , and sen- sations , —similar passions , affections , and ...
... instinct or inherited habit , as they would be of little use to an animal in a state of nature . Now , what is the ... instincts in common . All have the same senses , intuitions , and sen- sations , —similar passions , affections , and ...
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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.