Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic EvolutionLondon, 1895 - Всего страниц: 591 |
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... enemies are at hand , they hasten to the slaughter , and threaten the unusually prolific species with extinction . Mr. Hudson tells us how an enormous development of life among the mice was succeeded by an enormous influx of enemies ...
... enemies are at hand , they hasten to the slaughter , and threaten the unusually prolific species with extinction . Mr. Hudson tells us how an enormous development of life among the mice was succeeded by an enormous influx of enemies ...
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... enemies which hasten to avail themselves of the unwonted feast . In those instances in which enormous fertility in each generation is the rule - as in the case of the cod - fish - the destruction is not discriminative , but the output ...
... enemies which hasten to avail themselves of the unwonted feast . In those instances in which enormous fertility in each generation is the rule - as in the case of the cod - fish - the destruction is not discriminative , but the output ...
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... enemies ; martins and weasels , cats and owls , buzzards and crows are all on the look out for it . At a later period the same enemies destroy numbers of the helpless young , and in winter many succumb in the struggle against cold and ...
... enemies ; martins and weasels , cats and owls , buzzards and crows are all on the look out for it . At a later period the same enemies destroy numbers of the helpless young , and in winter many succumb in the struggle against cold and ...
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... enemy , has practically no greater chance of escape than a feeble and sickly bird . On the con- trary , the boldest and ... enemies , if one of them escaped and the other was caught you could not say that the one that escaped was the ...
... enemy , has practically no greater chance of escape than a feeble and sickly bird . On the con- trary , the boldest and ... enemies , if one of them escaped and the other was caught you could not say that the one that escaped was the ...
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... enemies were exactly equal in their swiftness . In short , when any given test is applied we can be certain that the fittest will survive only on the condition that the trial takes place under exactly similar circumstances , and in many ...
... enemies were exactly equal in their swiftness . In short , when any given test is applied we can be certain that the fittest will survive only on the condition that the trial takes place under exactly similar circumstances , and in many ...
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Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution Charles Clement Coe Полный просмотр - 1895 |
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action of Natural adapted animals argument Artificial Selection assertion assume attack become believe birds black rat breed brown rat burrow caterpillars cause chance co-operation colour Colours of Animals competition correlated variation Darwin destruction difficulty dogs effect eggs enemies evidence experience extermination external conditions extinction fact favourable variations female fertile fittest geometrical ratio germ plasm habits hare herd illustration individuals inherited insects instinct intelligence isolation kind larvæ less live male means of Natural modification Natural Selection Naturalist necessarily nest neuter observed obvious occur offspring Organic Evolution Origin of Species phenomena plants possible preservation prey Prince Kropotkin principle produced protection race reason resemblance result Romanes says seems sexual reproduction Sexual Selection similar variants sometimes stability of species structure struggle for existence supposed survival take place theory of Natural tion transmutation of species varieties Wallace Weismann white-tailed eagle wild young
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Стр. 312 - So careful of the type' ? but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.
Стр. 467 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, - if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass; the same hips and haws on the autumn's hedgerows; the same redbreasts that we used to call "God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
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Стр. 132 - Say,' there be : Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Стр. 449 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...
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Стр. 68 - Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies ; for instance, on a piece of ground three feet long and two wide, dug and cleared, and where there could be no choking from other plants, I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up, and out of the 357 no less than 295 were destroyed, chiefly by slugs and insects.
Стр. 132 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...