 | Gordon Miller - 2000 - Страниц: 266
...transported through salt-water, than could the slimy spawn of frogs? From The Origin of Species (1859) Introduction When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist....struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Bruce S. Lieberman - 2000 - Страниц: 230
...reading this book. let me quote the opening sentence of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species . . . When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhahiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Bagehot - 2001 - Страниц: 300
...thing. But our most ambitious schemes of philosophy now start quite differently. Mr Darwin begins:'When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | David Simpson - 2002 - Страниц: 308
...is the first sentence of Darwin's introduction to The Origin of Species: "When on board HMS Becyle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts...geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants ofthat continent." 33 The information passed on here is much the same as it would be in a sentence... | |
 | Kathryn Coe - 2003 - Страниц: 236
...introduction to On the Origin of Species, "I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of inhabitants of South America, and in the geological...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries" (1859). The mystery of mysteries that would lead Darwin to his... | |
 | James W. Valentine - 2004 - Страниц: 639
...longer than the universe has been around. Take just the first sentence of Darwin's Origin of Species: "When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." Given a monkey with a thirty-key typewriter, randomly striking a key per second, it would on average... | |
 | David Rains Wallace - 2004 - Страниц: 374
...Owen wrote a spiteful review of The Origin of Species, singling out for ridicule its assertion that "certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants...relations of the present to the past inhabitants" might "throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries." He scoffed that "what... | |
 | Laurie Ann Callihan - 2004 - Страниц: 294
...origin of and relationships between groups of species INTRODUCTION. WEEK on board BMS ' Beagle,' tat naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of tho organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the... | |
 | 2004 - Страниц: 494
...the hidden bond of connexion'. 'Pigeons If You Please' Darwin's Origin of Species (1859: 1) begins: 'When on board HMS "Beagle", as naturalist, I was...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . .' Darwin certainly used the many facts he recorded during his five years on the Beagle in supporting... | |
 | John Henry Morgan - 2005 - Страниц: 265
...namely, the opening paragraph of The Origin of Species, 1859 edition, seems in order at this juncture: When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
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When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. 
