Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 351 |
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... America , which so abounds with arboreal animals , as Mr. Bates remarks , likewise abounds , according to Mohl and Palm , with climbing plants ; and , of the tendril - bearing plants exam- ined by me , the highest developed kinds are ...
... America , which so abounds with arboreal animals , as Mr. Bates remarks , likewise abounds , according to Mohl and Palm , with climbing plants ; and , of the tendril - bearing plants exam- ined by me , the highest developed kinds are ...
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... America can only flap along the surface of the water , and has its wings in nearly the same condition as the domestic Aylesbury duck it is a remarkable fact that the young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults ...
... America can only flap along the surface of the water , and has its wings in nearly the same condition as the domestic Aylesbury duck it is a remarkable fact that the young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults ...
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... America a burrowing rodent -the tuco - tuco , or ctenomys - is even more subterranean in its habits than the mole ; and I was assured by a Span- iard , who had often caught them , that they were fre- quently blind . One which I kept ...
... America a burrowing rodent -the tuco - tuco , or ctenomys - is even more subterranean in its habits than the mole ; and I was assured by a Span- iard , who had often caught them , that they were fre- quently blind . One which I kept ...
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... America , informs me that the horses of Chili , which have lived under nearly the same conditions as their progenitors in Andalusia , remain unaltered , while the Pampas horses and the Puno ponies are considerably modified . There can ...
... America , informs me that the horses of Chili , which have lived under nearly the same conditions as their progenitors in Andalusia , remain unaltered , while the Pampas horses and the Puno ponies are considerably modified . There can ...
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... America ) the vegetation : this again would largely affect the insects , and this , as we have just seen in Staffordshire , the insectivorous birds , and so onward in ever - increasing circles of complexity . Not that under nature the ...
... America ) the vegetation : this again would largely affect the insects , and this , as we have just seen in Staffordshire , the insectivorous birds , and so onward in ever - increasing circles of complexity . Not that under nature the ...
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Стр. i - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 347 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 110 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Стр. 72 - The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
Стр. 254 - It is incredible that all these facts should speak falsely. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.
Стр. 44 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
Стр. 308 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has 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 thé exclusive means of modification.