Darwinia: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1877 - Всего страниц: 404 |
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... material connection between the facts is justly held to be consistent with an intellectual - and which the most analogous cases we can think of in the or- ganic world do not favor ; for there is a material con- nection between the grub ...
... material connection between the facts is justly held to be consistent with an intellectual - and which the most analogous cases we can think of in the or- ganic world do not favor ; for there is a material con- nection between the grub ...
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... material foundations combined , a theory of Nature as theistic and as scientific as that which he has so eloquently expounded . To conceive the possibility of " the descent of species from species by insensibly fine gradations " during ...
... material foundations combined , a theory of Nature as theistic and as scientific as that which he has so eloquently expounded . To conceive the possibility of " the descent of species from species by insensibly fine gradations " during ...
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... materials for experiments , ready to our hand . In domestication we vary some of the natural conditions of a species , and thus learn experi- mentally what changes are within the reach of vary ing conditions in Nature . We separate and ...
... materials for experiments , ready to our hand . In domestication we vary some of the natural conditions of a species , and thus learn experi- mentally what changes are within the reach of vary ing conditions in Nature . We separate and ...
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... materials , he had found that the species of the two epochs supposed to be identical by Des Hayes and Lyell were in reality distinct , although closely allied species . " Moreover , he is now satisfied , as we under- stand , that the ...
... materials , he had found that the species of the two epochs supposed to be identical by Des Hayes and Lyell were in reality distinct , although closely allied species . " Moreover , he is now satisfied , as we under- stand , that the ...
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... material connection between the members of a series of organized beings is inconsistent with the idea of their being intellectually connected with one another through the Deity , i . e . , as products of one mind , as indicating and ...
... material connection between the members of a series of organized beings is inconsistent with the idea of their being intellectually connected with one another through the Deity , i . e . , as products of one mind , as indicating and ...
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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.