 | Gregory McNamee - 2004 - Страниц: 132
...course lend sup port to his observation, in his 1859 book The Origin of Species, that "it is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,... | |
 | Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue - 2004 - Страниц: 592
...diversity, and order found in this commonplace country landscape: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...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,... | |
 | Judith Hooper - 2002 - Страниц: 412
...bank' passage in the Origin, the last words in the book: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constricted forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner,... | |
 | Allan Sandage, Louis Brown, Patricia Parratt Craig - 2004 - Страниц: 298
...complexity" in his classic book On The Origin of Species. His example of the entangled bank, "clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes,...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth," remains a strong metaphor to this day.' 8 Though he never called himself an ecologist (the word would... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - Страниц: 354
...claims abound in Darwin's writings. Consider the famous closing words of the Origin: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Matt Young, Taner Edis - 2004 - Страниц: 268
...Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, dothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with I'arious insects /lifting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that... | |
 | Beatrix Beisner - 2005 - Страниц: 464
...ecological interactions that drive evolutionary change (Darwin 1964, pp. 489-490): It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,... | |
 | Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd - 2008 - Страниц: 343
...ended On the Origin of Species with a lyrical paragraph reading in part as follows: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - Страниц: 220
...Darwin's style here becomes somewhat lyrical.) He writes, It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...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,... | |
 | Michael C. Finke - 2005 - Страниц: 264
...while the very last paragraph of Origin of Species begins: "It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...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,... | |
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It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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... 
