Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 351 |
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... known to arrest putrefaction by destroying the microzymes . Page 98 . Cubes of about one twentieth of an inch ( 1.27 millimetre ) of moderately roasted meat were placed on five leaves , which became in twelve hours closely inflected ...
... known to arrest putrefaction by destroying the microzymes . Page 98 . Cubes of about one twentieth of an inch ( 1.27 millimetre ) of moderately roasted meat were placed on five leaves , which became in twelve hours closely inflected ...
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... known fourth class of parasites ( such as the mistletoe ) , which are nourished by the juices of living plants . Most , however , of the plants belonging to these four classes obtain part of their carbon , like ordinary species , from ...
... known fourth class of parasites ( such as the mistletoe ) , which are nourished by the juices of living plants . Most , however , of the plants belonging to these four classes obtain part of their carbon , like ordinary species , from ...
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... known any more than in the case of Utricularia - would find their egress rendered difficult by the sharp incurved hairs on the lips , and , as soon as they passed some way down the neck , it would be scarcely possible for them to return ...
... known any more than in the case of Utricularia - would find their egress rendered difficult by the sharp incurved hairs on the lips , and , as soon as they passed some way down the neck , it would be scarcely possible for them to return ...
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... known from the amount of sediment annually delivered into the sea by the Missis- sippi , that its enormous drainage - area must on an average be lowered 00263 of an inch each year ; and this would suffice in four and a half million ...
... known from the amount of sediment annually delivered into the sea by the Missis- sippi , that its enormous drainage - area must on an average be lowered 00263 of an inch each year ; and this would suffice in four and a half million ...
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... known to the progenitors of the worms which act in the described manner . Nor are their actions so unvarying or inevitable as are most true instincts . As worms are not guided by special instincts in each THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS . 45 ...
... known to the progenitors of the worms which act in the described manner . Nor are their actions so unvarying or inevitable as are most true instincts . As worms are not guided by special instincts in each THE PART PLAYED BY WORMS . 45 ...
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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.