The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of SpeciesJ. Nisbet, 1867 - Всего страниц: 386 |
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... certain stars that have shot madly from their spheres , after a tem- porary blaze , will pass into the darkness of oblivion . Mr Darwin's labours in the interests of Transmutation must either be triumphant , or there will be an end of ...
... certain stars that have shot madly from their spheres , after a tem- porary blaze , will pass into the darkness of oblivion . Mr Darwin's labours in the interests of Transmutation must either be triumphant , or there will be an end of ...
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... certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America , and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent . These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of ...
... certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America , and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent . These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of ...
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... certain parts of their plumage fantastically decorated , and in many instances most re- splendent in colour . My own opinion , ' says he , ' is that this gorgeous colouring of the Humming Birds has been given for the mere purpose of ...
... certain parts of their plumage fantastically decorated , and in many instances most re- splendent in colour . My own opinion , ' says he , ' is that this gorgeous colouring of the Humming Birds has been given for the mere purpose of ...
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... certain areas , and we can hardly suppose these structures are only adaptations to peculiarities of climate or country , for otherwise animals belonging to a distinct type , and introduced by man , would not succeed so admir- ably even ...
... certain areas , and we can hardly suppose these structures are only adaptations to peculiarities of climate or country , for otherwise animals belonging to a distinct type , and introduced by man , would not succeed so admir- ably even ...
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... certain pre - existing conditions of nature , that nature has prescribed certain organisms to carry out certain functions , and that an attempt to divert the func- tions into another channel is a failure . This ought not to be ...
... certain pre - existing conditions of nature , that nature has prescribed certain organisms to carry out certain functions , and that an attempt to divert the func- tions into another channel is a failure . This ought not to be ...
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Стр. 7 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Стр. 52 - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
Стр. 7 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Стр. 27 - So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.
Стр. xiii - In short, we shall have to treat species in the same manner as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This may not be a cheering prospect ; but we shall at least be freed from the vain search for the undiscovered and undiscoverable essence of the term species.
Стр. 113 - I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.
Стр. 43 - The similar framework of bones in the hand of a man, wing of a bat, fin of the porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of descent with slow and slight successive modifications.
Стр. xi - These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Стр. 221 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 26 - Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.