Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - Всего страниц: 351 |
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... leaves the ellipses are generally narrow . Even the stems of seedlings before they Page 3 . have broken through the ground , as well as their buried radicles , circumnutate , as far as the pressure of the surrounding earth permits . In ...
... leaves the ellipses are generally narrow . Even the stems of seedlings before they Page 3 . have broken through the ground , as well as their buried radicles , circumnutate , as far as the pressure of the surrounding earth permits . In ...
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... leaves of leaf - climbers , and apparently certain roots , all have the power of move- ment when touched , and bend quickly toward the touched side . Extremely slight pressure often suffices . If the pressure be not permanent , the part ...
... leaves of leaf - climbers , and apparently certain roots , all have the power of move- ment when touched , and bend quickly toward the touched side . Extremely slight pressure often suffices . If the pressure be not permanent , the part ...
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... leaves is so conspicu- of Movement ous a phenomenon that it was observed as 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 ...
... leaves is so conspicu- of Movement ous a phenomenon that it was observed as 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 ...
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... leaves , the cotyledons move vertically upward at night , while at the same time the leaflets move vertically downward ; and that in the same genus the leaves or cotyledons of some species move upward , while those of other species move ...
... leaves , the cotyledons move vertically upward at night , while at the same time the leaflets move vertically downward ; and that in the same genus the leaves or cotyledons of some species move upward , while those of other species move ...
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... leaves or leaf- lets , clearly indicates , as it seems to us , that the object gained is the protection of the upper surfaces from being chilled at night by radiation . There is nothing improb- able in the upper surface needing ...
... leaves or leaf- lets , clearly indicates , as it seems to us , that the object gained is the protection of the upper surfaces from being chilled at night by radiation . There is nothing improb- able in the upper surface needing ...
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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.