The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer ...Doubleday, Page, 1902 - Всего страниц: 173 |
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... namely , that on the same con- tinent , under the most diverse conditions , under heat and cold , on mountain and lowland , on deserts and marshes , most of the inhabitants within each great class are plainly related ; for they are the ...
... namely , that on the same con- tinent , under the most diverse conditions , under heat and cold , on mountain and lowland , on deserts and marshes , most of the inhabitants within each great class are plainly related ; for they are the ...
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... namely , at the close of the Introduc- tion the following words : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification . " This has been of no avail . Great is the power of steady ...
... namely , at the close of the Introduc- tion the following words : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification . " This has been of no avail . Great is the power of steady ...
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... namely , the law of the attraction of gravity , was also attacked by Leibnitz , " as subversive of natural , and inferentially of revealed religion . " A celebrated author and divine has written to me that " he has gradually learned to ...
... namely , the law of the attraction of gravity , was also attacked by Leibnitz , " as subversive of natural , and inferentially of revealed religion . " A celebrated author and divine has written to me that " he has gradually learned to ...
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... namely , to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype . But analogy may be a deceitful guide . Nevertheless all living things have much in common , in their chemical composition , their cellular ...
... namely , to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype . But analogy may be a deceitful guide . Nevertheless all living things have much in common , in their chemical composition , their cellular ...
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... namely , to the animal and vegetable kingdoms -certain low forms are so far intermediate in character that naturalists have disputed to which kingdom they should be referred . As Professor Asa Gray has remarked , " the spores and other ...
... namely , to the animal and vegetable kingdoms -certain low forms are so far intermediate in character that naturalists have disputed to which kingdom they should be referred . As Professor Asa Gray has remarked , " the spores and other ...
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Стр. 33 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Стр. 33 - 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. 37 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population ' ; and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from longcontinued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
Стр. 34 - 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. 29 - We possess no pedigree or armorial bearings; and we have to discover and trace the many diverging lines of descent in our natural genealogies, by characters of any kind which have long been inherited. Rudimentary organs will speak infallibly with respect to the nature of long-lost structures. Species and groups of species which are called aberrant, and which may fancifully be called living fossils, will aid us in forming a picture of the ancient forms of life. Embryology will often reveal to us the...
Стр. 36 - It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified ; and the subject haunted me. But it was equally evident that neither the action of the surrounding conditions, nor the will of the organisms (especially in the case of plants) could account for the innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life — for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees,...
Стр. 41 - I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favorable ones. Owing to this habit, very few objections were raised against my views which I had not at least noticed and attempted to answer.
Стр. 38 - The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature.
Стр. 46 - ... man is descended from some less highly organized form. The grounds upon which this conclusion rests will never be shaken, for the 45 close similarity between man and the lower animals in embryonic development, as well as in innumerable points of structure and constitution, both of high and of the most trifling importance — the rudiments which he retains, and the abnormal reversions to which he is occasionally liable — are facts which cannot be disputed.
Стр. 20 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that 'he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of...