Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 351 |
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... early period of growth , before the shape or existence of any part of the flower is of importance for the well - being of the plant . Can we feel satisfied by saying that each orchid was created , exactly as we now see it , on a certain ...
... early period of growth , before the shape or existence of any part of the flower is of importance for the well - being of the plant . Can we feel satisfied by saying that each orchid was created , exactly as we now see it , on a certain ...
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... early as the time of Pliny ; and since Linnæus pub- lished his famous essay , " Somnus Plantarum , " it has been the subject of several memoirs . Many flowers close at night , and these are likewise said to sleep ; but we are not here ...
... early as the time of Pliny ; and since Linnæus pub- lished his famous essay , " Somnus Plantarum , " it has been the subject of several memoirs . Many flowers close at night , and these are likewise said to sleep ; but we are not here ...
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... early age progressed considerably in civilization ; and this again implies a long - continued previous period of less advanced civilization , during which the domes- ticated animals , kept by different tribes in different districts ...
... early age progressed considerably in civilization ; and this again implies a long - continued previous period of less advanced civilization , during which the domes- ticated animals , kept by different tribes in different districts ...
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... early a period was an argument of much weight that they had proceeded from several wild sources , for there would not have been sufficient time for their di- vergence and modification . But now that we know , from the discovery of flint ...
... early a period was an argument of much weight that they had proceeded from several wild sources , for there would not have been sufficient time for their di- vergence and modification . But now that we know , from the discovery of flint ...
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... early times in England , together with training , have made him a very different animal from his parent stocks . 66 ' MAKING THE WORKS OF GOD A MERE MOCKERY . " Origin of Species , page 130 . We see several distinct species of the horse ...
... early times in England , together with training , have made him a very different animal from his parent stocks . 66 ' MAKING THE WORKS OF GOD A MERE MOCKERY . " Origin of Species , page 130 . We see several distinct species of the horse ...
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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.