There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this... Political Socialism, Would it Fail in Success? ... - Стр. 19авторы: James Shannon Crawford - 1911 - Страниц: 110Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1889 - Страниц: 434
...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man doubles in twentyfive years, and at this rate in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny." Again he says : "Lighten any check, mitigate... | |
| 1860 - Страниц: 966
...matters of opinion, and admit of contest ; but what can we think "f the following statement at p. 64 ? "Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for bis progeny." True, were the fact so ; but what does it mean... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - Страниц: 612
...high a rate that, if not deutroyed. thc earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be stain!. ugroorn for his progeny. Linnaius has calculated lhal if an annual plant... | |
| 1861 - Страниц: 824
...high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally uoe be standing room for his progeny. Linn&us has calculated that if an annual plant... | |
| 1861 - Страниц: 562
...high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be peopled by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...years, and at this rate in a few thousand years there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linneus has calculated that if an annual plant... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - Страниц: 508
...high a rate that if not destroyed the earth would soon be covered with the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years ; and at this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. . . . The elephant... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - Страниц: 472
...high a rate, that it not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1867 - Страниц: 848
...but spiders. But then the same can be said of any animal which produces two or more young at once; "even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five...; and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny." The result of this geometrical increase of animals... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - Страниц: 504
...high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnaeus has... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - Страниц: 440
...fifty years there would be alive nearly nineteen million elephants descended from the first pair. . . . Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twentyfive years, and at this rate in a few thousand years there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny." 1 But how would it be meanwhile with subsistence... | |
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