On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle of LifeAppleton, 1864 - Всего страниц: 440 |
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... supposed " impulses " account in a scientific sense for the numerous and beautiful co- adaptations , which we see throughout nature ; —I cannot see that we thus gain any insight how , for instance , a woodpecker has become adapted to ...
... supposed " impulses " account in a scientific sense for the numerous and beautiful co- adaptations , which we see throughout nature ; —I cannot see that we thus gain any insight how , for instance , a woodpecker has become adapted to ...
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... supposed to have been caused by some miasma , have arisen and spread over the world , so at certain periods the germs of existing species may have been chemically affected by circumambient molecules of a particular nature , and thus ...
... supposed to have been caused by some miasma , have arisen and spread over the world , so at certain periods the germs of existing species may have been chemically affected by circumambient molecules of a particular nature , and thus ...
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... supposed , with the act of gen- eration . Seedlings from the same fruit , and the young of the same litter , sometimes differ considerably from each other , though both the young and the parents , as Müller 16 [ CHAP . L VARIATION.
... supposed , with the act of gen- eration . Seedlings from the same fruit , and the young of the same litter , sometimes differ considerably from each other , though both the young and the parents , as Müller 16 [ CHAP . L VARIATION.
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... supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock - pigeons , that is , not breeding or willingly perching on trees . But besides C. livia , with its geo- graphical sub - species , only two or three of the species of rock - pigeons are ...
... supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock - pigeons , that is , not breeding or willingly perching on trees . But besides C. livia , with its geo- graphical sub - species , only two or three of the species of rock - pigeons are ...
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... supposed spe- cies of pigeons to breed freely under domestication ; these supposed species being quite unknown in a wild state , and their becoming nowhere feral ; these species having very abnormal characters in certain respects , as ...
... supposed spe- cies of pigeons to breed freely under domestication ; these supposed species being quite unknown in a wild state , and their becoming nowhere feral ; these species having very abnormal characters in certain respects , as ...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The ..., Том 2 Charles Darwin Полный просмотр - 1888 |
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Стр. 424 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Стр. 63 - 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.
Стр. 79 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Стр. 70 - I counted thirtytwo little trees ; and one of them, with twenty-six rings of growth, had during many years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed. No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Yet the heath was so extremely barren and so extensive that no one would ever have imagined that cattle would have so closely and effectually searched it for food. Here we see that cattle absolutely determine the...
Стр. 169 - If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Стр. 63 - Hence as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life.
Стр. 167 - To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
Стр. 378 - Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the 'Nature of Limbs.
Стр. 187 - 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. 165 - 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.