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acquired ancestors animals appeared bees bewusster Bewusstsein birds body brain Buffon cells chapter Charles Darwin circumstances clairvoyance conclusion connection conscious deliberation cycle eggs ence Erasmus Darwin Ernst Krause evolution Ewald Hering example existence experience explain fact follow germ Habit Hartmann Hellsehen heredity idea individual inherited instinctive action Isidore Geoffroy kind knowledge Kosmos Krause Krause's article Lamarck larva less living manner matter means mechanism Mechanismus memory mental millions of millions mind molecules natural natural selection nerve nest offspring once opinion organized Origin of Species Pangenesis parent passage perception phenomena Philosophie Zoologique Philosophy physiologist pleasure present processes Professor Hering Professor Hering's lecture Professor Huxley quoted Ray Lankester reader recollection regard remember reproduction result Robert Darwin's sensation Shrewsbury Edition substance suppose theory thing tion translation unbewusste Unbewussten uncon unconscious purpose vibrations whole word writing
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Стр. 8 - ... been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily...
Стр. 8 - When on board HMS BEAGLE, as naturalist, I was much struck with 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.
Стр. 199 - The hypothesis of Lamarck — that progressive changes in species have been produced by the attempts of animals to increase the development of their own organs, and thus modify their structure and habits — has been repeatedly and easily refuted by all writers on the subject of varieties and species...
Стр. 65 - That, for instance, in acquiring the sensation of redness, our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty-two millions of millions of times; of yellowness, five hundred and forty-two millions of millions of times ; and of violet, seven hundred and seven millions of millions of times per second! Do not such things sound more like the ravings of madmen than the sober conclusions of people in their waking senses ? They are, nevertheless, conclusions to which any one may most certainly arrive, who will...
Стр. 64 - Who would not ask for demonstration, when told that a gnat's wing, in its ordinary flight, beats many hundred times in a second...
Стр. 38 - EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW : Being a Comparison of the Theories of BUFFON, Dr. ERASMUS DARWIN, and LAMARCK, with that of Mr. CHARLES DARWIN. With copious Extracts from the Writings of the first three-named Authors. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7^.
Стр. 64 - ... second ! That it is by such movements communicated to the nerves of our eyes that we see ; nay more, that it is the difference in the frequency of their recurrence which affects us with the sense of the diversity of colour.
Стр. 25 - But it would be a serious error to suppose that the greater number of instincts have been acquired by habit in one generation, and then transmitted by inheritance to succeeding generations. It can be clearly shown that the most wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely, those of the hive-bee and of many ants, could not possibly have been acquired by habit.
Стр. 28 - Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the...
Стр. 199 - Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of the more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its...