Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 351 |
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... Islands with those of the Mainland ex- plained only by this Theory . 125 VII . EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM . Points of Correspondence between Man and the other Animals The facts of Embryology and the Theory of ...
... Islands with those of the Mainland ex- plained only by this Theory . 125 VII . EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM . Points of Correspondence between Man and the other Animals The facts of Embryology and the Theory of ...
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... having constructed innumerable reefs and islands in the great oceans ; but these are almost confined to the tropical zones . INTELLIGENCE OF WORMS . We can hardly escape from the 44 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF .
... having constructed innumerable reefs and islands in the great oceans ; but these are almost confined to the tropical zones . INTELLIGENCE OF WORMS . We can hardly escape from the 44 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF .
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... islands , tenanted by no beast of prey , has been caused by disuse . The ostrich , indeed , inhabits conti- nents , and is exposed to danger from which it can not escape by flight , but it can defend itself by kicking its enemies as ...
... islands , tenanted by no beast of prey , has been caused by disuse . The ostrich , indeed , inhabits conti- nents , and is exposed to danger from which it can not escape by flight , but it can defend itself by kicking its enemies as ...
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... island , the tendency of natural selection to enlarge or to reduce the wings would depend on whether a greater number of individuals were saved by successfully battling with the winds , or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never ...
... island , the tendency of natural selection to enlarge or to reduce the wings would depend on whether a greater number of individuals were saved by successfully battling with the winds , or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never ...
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... island as Ireland . At a period between four and five thousand Page 18 . years ago , various breeds - viz . , pariah dogs , greyhounds , common hounds , mastiffs , house - dogs , lap- dogs , and turnspits - existed , more or less ...
... island as Ireland . At a period between four and five thousand Page 18 . years ago , various breeds - viz . , pariah dogs , greyhounds , common hounds , mastiffs , house - dogs , lap- dogs , and turnspits - existed , more or less ...
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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.