Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its Applications, Объемы 1-2Macmillan, 1889 - Всего страниц: 494 |
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... extent , yet the total number of living organisms in the world does not , and cannot , increase year by year . Consequently every year , on the average , as many die as are born , plants as well as animals ; and the majority die ...
... extent , yet the total number of living organisms in the world does not , and cannot , increase year by year . Consequently every year , on the average , as many die as are born , plants as well as animals ; and the majority die ...
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... extent ; and the bearing of this on the question of the origin of species is most important . For if in each generation of a given animal or plant the fittest survive to continue the breed , then whatever may be the special peculiarity ...
... extent ; and the bearing of this on the question of the origin of species is most important . For if in each generation of a given animal or plant the fittest survive to continue the breed , then whatever may be the special peculiarity ...
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... extent here indicated actually occurs in nature , and leads to the continued preservation of favourable variations . These matters will be discussed in the four succeeding chapters , though in a somewhat different order - the struggle ...
... extent here indicated actually occurs in nature , and leads to the continued preservation of favourable variations . These matters will be discussed in the four succeeding chapters , though in a somewhat different order - the struggle ...
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... extent . In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever the branches could accommodate them . The pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April , and left it altogether with their young before the ...
... extent . In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever the branches could accommodate them . The pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April , and left it altogether with their young before the ...
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... extent of this variability . The most frequent and the most misleading of the objections to the efficacy of natural selection arise from ignorance of this subject , an ignorance shared by many naturalists , for it is only since Mr ...
... extent of this variability . The most frequent and the most misleading of the objections to the efficacy of natural selection arise from ignorance of this subject , an ignorance shared by many naturalists , for it is only since Mr ...
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Стр. 40 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Стр. 132 - I did not formerly consider sufficiently the existence of structures, which, as far as we can at present judge, are neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
Стр. 38 - Starting, and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springing upon me. I was upon a little height ; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat.
Стр. 38 - Growling horribly, close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though I was quite conscious of all that was happening.
Стр. 31 - Not far from Shelbyville, in the State of Kentucky, about five years ago, there was one of these breeding places, which stretched through the woods in nearly a north and south direction ; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever the branches could accommodate them.
Стр. 32 - I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and so close together, that could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals. From right to left as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended ; seeming everywhere equally crowded.
Стр. 31 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Стр. 19 - Paraguay, the parasitic insects would probably increase; and this would lessen the number of the navel-frequenting flies — then cattle and horses would become feral, and this would certainly greatly alter (as indeed I have observed in parts of South America) the vegetation: this again would largely affect the insects; and this, as we have just seen in Staffordshire, the insectivorous birds, and so onwards in ever-increasing circles of complexity.
Стр. 9 - Darwin that he is the Newton of natural history, and that, just so surely as that the discovery and demonstration by Newton of the law of gravitation established order in place of chaos and laid a sure foundation for all future study of the starry heavens, so surely has Darwin, by his discovery of the law of natural selection and his demonstration of the great principle of the preservation of useful variations in the struggle for life, not only thrown a flood of light on the process of development...