Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1877 - Всего страниц: 404 |
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... called for them within the past sixteen years , and contributed to various periodicals , with little thought of their form- ing a series , and none of ever bringing them together into a volume , although one of them ( the third ) was ...
... called for them within the past sixteen years , and contributed to various periodicals , with little thought of their form- ing a series , and none of ever bringing them together into a volume , although one of them ( the third ) was ...
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... called deductive evolution - a subject which lay beyond the writer's immediate scope , and to which neither the bent of his mind nor the line of his studies has fitted him to do justice . If these papers are useful at all , it will be ...
... called deductive evolution - a subject which lay beyond the writer's immediate scope , and to which neither the bent of his mind nor the line of his studies has fitted him to do justice . If these papers are useful at all , it will be ...
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... called the Nicene , " as the exponent of the Christian faith . " Truth emerges sooner from error than from con- fusion , " says Bacon ; and clearer views than com- monly prevail upon the points at issue regarding " religion and science ...
... called the Nicene , " as the exponent of the Christian faith . " Truth emerges sooner from error than from con- fusion , " says Bacon ; and clearer views than com- monly prevail upon the points at issue regarding " religion and science ...
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... called them , could be shown him . " That this is not a case like that of dogs , in which probably the blood of more than one species is mingled , Mr. Darwin proceeds to show , adducing cogent reasons for the common opinion that all ...
... called them , could be shown him . " That this is not a case like that of dogs , in which probably the blood of more than one species is mingled , Mr. Darwin proceeds to show , adducing cogent reasons for the common opinion that all ...
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... called closely - related species on the other , do not differ except in degree . When- ever this wider difference separating the latter can be spanned by intermediate forms , as it sometimes is , no botanist long resists the inevitable ...
... called closely - related species on the other , do not differ except in degree . When- ever this wider difference separating the latter can be spanned by intermediate forms , as it sometimes is , no botanist long resists the inevitable ...
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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.