Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1877 - Всего страниц: 404 |
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... become familiar to many of our readers , before these pages are issued . An abstract of the argument -for " the whole volume is one long argument , " as the author states - is unnecessary in such a case ; and it would be difficult to ...
... become familiar to many of our readers , before these pages are issued . An abstract of the argument -for " the whole volume is one long argument , " as the author states - is unnecessary in such a case ; and it would be difficult to ...
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... become so . It is only a question of time . How well the simile of a genealogical tree illus- trates the main ideas of Darwin's theory the following extract from the summary of the fourth chapter shows : " It is a truly wonderful fact ...
... become so . It is only a question of time . How well the simile of a genealogical tree illus- trates the main ideas of Darwin's theory the following extract from the summary of the fourth chapter shows : " It is a truly wonderful fact ...
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... become if Nature ever afford- ed it equal opportunities . Even when , to subserve human uses , we modify a domesticated race to the detriment of its native vigor , or to the extent of prac- tical monstrosity , although we secure forms ...
... become if Nature ever afford- ed it equal opportunities . Even when , to subserve human uses , we modify a domesticated race to the detriment of its native vigor , or to the extent of prac- tical monstrosity , although we secure forms ...
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... disturbance would carry them be- yond the influence of the primordial attraction , where they may become new centres of variation . Some suppose that races cannot be perpetuated indefinitely even by THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . 31.
... disturbance would carry them be- yond the influence of the primordial attraction , where they may become new centres of variation . Some suppose that races cannot be perpetuated indefinitely even by THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . 31.
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... become common throughout whole islands in a period of less than ten years . Several of the plants now most numerous over the wide plains of La Plata , clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants , have ...
... become common throughout whole islands in a period of less than ten years . Several of the plants now most numerous over the wide plains of La Plata , clothing square leagues of surface almost to the exclusion of all other plants , have ...
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Стр. 131 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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Стр. 38 - We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food ; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey...
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Стр. 18 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
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Стр. 104 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Стр. 104 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.