| Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1926 - Страниц: 476
...under nature the relations will ever be as simple as this. Battle within battle must be continually recurring with varying success; and yet in the long-run...so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains for long periods of time uniform, though assuredly the merest trifle would give the victory to one... | |
| Robert P. McIntosh - 1986 - Страниц: 404
...units to establish and maintain an equilibrium was nearly universal in the 19th century. Darwin wrote "In the long-run the forces are so nicely balanced...of nature remains uniform for long periods of time" (quoted by Stauffer 1957). Early community and equilibrium concepts Mobius's (1877) definition of his... | |
| Joel Bartholemew Hagen - 1992 - Страниц: 284
...and Christopher for putting up with a historian in the family. An Entangled Bank l An Entangled Bank Battle within battle must ever be recurring with varying...of nature remains uniform for long periods of time. — CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species CHARLES DARWIN presented an ambiguous picture of nature... | |
| David Amigoni - 1995 - Страниц: 228
...rather than progressive. Whilst the struggle for existence was constant, the status quo was the norm. 'Battle within battle must ever be recurring with...of nature remains uniform for long periods of time ...'.14 The central ambiguity of Darwin's attitude to change and persistence allowed a wide variety... | |
| Carl B. Huffaker, Andrew Paul Gutierrez - 1998 - Страниц: 782
...rate, that if not destroyed the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. . . . Battle within battle must ever be recurring with varying success; and yet in the long run the forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for longer periods... | |
| Carolyn North - 2006 - Страниц: 359
...sensation, I felt something akin to loneliness. I took a deep, shaky breath and read on: "In the long run, the forces are so nicely balanced that the face of nature remains for long periods uniform." A squawk from the bedroom roused me from my book, and I leapt towards the... | |
| Andrew Goatly - 2007 - Страниц: 464
...Battle within battle must continually be recurring with varying success; and yet, in the long run, the forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains for long periods of time uniform, though assuredly the merest trifle would give the victory of one... | |
| Charles Darwin - 2008 - Страниц: 166
...would ever have imagined that cattle would have so closely and effectually searched it for food. 28 Here we see that cattle absolutely determine the existence...with varying success; and yet in the long-run the 29 forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for long periods of time,... | |
| New Zealand Institute - 1870 - Страниц: 508
...this, as we have just seen in Staffordshire, the insectivorous birds, and so onwards in ever increasing circles of complexity. We began this series by insectivorous...be recurring with varying success ; and yet in the long run the forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for long periods... | |
| Страниц: 142
...results.7 Other samples of this "web of complex relations" led Darwin to the general observation that : "in the long-run the forces are so nicely balanced...face of nature remains uniform for long periods." s We can say that on the whole the economy of nature is a system in dynamic equilibrium. Recovery of... | |
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