 | Stephen Webster - 2003 - Страниц: 242
...end of the introduction of The Origin of Species, referring to the evolution of life, Darwin wrote: 'I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.' It is a thought-provoking statement, and a prescient one too. For... | |
 | Brian K. Hall, Wendy M. Olson - 2006 - Страниц: 506
...Modern Synthesis (L0vtrup, 1987; Futuyma, 1988). Even Darwin himself was an evolutionary pluralist: "I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification" (Darwin, 1859, p. 6). Acceptance of the role of behavior in evolution... | |
 | Raymundo Bautista Ramos - 2009 - Страниц: 275
...especies: "As my conclusión» have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively...subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — naniely at the cióse of uie Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural... | |
 | Angus M. Gunn - 2015 - Страниц: 199
...as the acknowledged varieties of any one species arc the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. These eight paragraphs from Darwin's introduction provide an excellent... | |
 | Wallace Arthur - 2004 - Страниц: 252
...to persuade us that it was the only such driver. He famously said, at the end of his Introduction: 'I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.' But Darwin the pluralist coexisted with Darwin the man with the big... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2005 - Страниц: 432
...change of front on my father's part. As a matter of fact the first edition of the Origin contains the words, "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modif1cation." Moveover, any alteration that his views may have undergone was due not to a change of... | |
 | Allan C. Hutchinson - 2005 - Страниц: 314
...much more pluralistic stance and insist that it is mistaken to bracket Darwin's neglected rider that "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification."21 However, theirs is much more than a fundamentalist argument over what Darwin did or... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - Страниц: 412
...which I formerly entertained- namely, that each species has been independently created- is erroneous. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification. Chapter I Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent. October 1st, 1859.... | |
 | David N. Stamos - 2012 - Страниц: 296
...There is, of course, the passage at the very end of the Introduction to the Origin in which Darwin says "I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification" (6). This was a claim that Darwin repeated throughout his correspondence.... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 2007 - Страниц: 684
...Origin of Species: As my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively...the first edition of this work and subsequently, I place in a most conspicuous position — namely at the close of the Introduction — the following... | |
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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... 
