 | John Richardson - 2004 - Страниц: 300
...Natural selection acts only in a tentative manner" (Descent 1/178). On the other hand he also says: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection" (Origin 489). has progressed, in precisely the case they most have in mind—human societies and values.... | |
 | Alfred R. Mele, Piers Rawling - 2004 - Страниц: 498
...organisms, or species. Darwin (1859, 489) concludes The Origin of Species with this optimistic argument: "And as natural selection works solely by and for...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." According to Sober's interpretation, Darwin is arguing that since selection maximizes individual fitness,... | |
 | Stephen Kern - 2009 - Страниц: 448
...consciousness throughout the eons. In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that "as natural selection works solely by and for the...and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."53 In history the Judéo-Christian tradition offered the hope for worldly perfection, the... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - Страниц: 354
...characterizing living things. On this all evolutionists agree. Darwin maintained again and again that "natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being" (Darwin 1859, p. 489; 1959, p. 758). But there are many "beings" involved in the evolutionary process.... | |
 | Raymond Corbey - 2005 - Страниц: 250
...speaks of progress and human worthiness. On the last two pages of Origin of Species, it is stated that "[as] natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection," and the book ends with the remark that "there is grandeur in this view of life" (Darwin 1859: 489,... | |
 | Hans-Dieter Klein - 2005 - Страниц: 296
...matter by the Creator" an. Sem Deismus macht für ihn plausibel: „Natural selection works solely ... for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." On the Origin ofSpecies, Cambridge 1964, 489f. In seiner Theorie nimmt er jedoch keinerlei gerichteten... | |
 | Harvey Claflin Mansfield - 2006 - Страниц: 310
...evolution had stopped. For practical purposes, it has stopped. 55. Darwin, Origin of Species, 16:48-49. 56. "And as Natural Selection works solely by and for...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Ibid., 16:428. 57. Darwin, Descent of Man (1870), in Works, 21:2, 48-49, 65, 125-26, 128, 147. 58.... | |
 | Thomas Lombardo - 2006 - Страниц: 474
...There is no being. " Johan Fichte "Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." Charles Darwin In this final section of the chapter I describe the development... | |
 | Leslie Smith, Jacques Vonèche - 2006 - Страниц: 247
...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...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. (Darwin, 1859, p. 373) This text is interesting in many different ways. First, it... | |
 | Scientific American - 2008 - Страниц: 731
...The Origin of Species, expressed Victorian social preference more than nature's record in writing: "As natural selection works solely by and for the...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Life's pathway certainly includes many features predictable from laws of nature, but these aspects... | |
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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. 
