| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - Страниц: 524
...new species, through the cruel, pitiless, and selfish law of Natural Selection. "If," says Darwin, " it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection."* Thus selfishness and the law of the strong prevail everywhere, and while the strong are occupied in... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - Страниц: 542
...new species, through the cruel, pitiless, and selfish law of Natural Selection. " If," says Darwin, " it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection."* Thus selfishness and the law of the strong prevail everywhere, and while the strong are occupied in... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - Страниц: 544
...developed, but he frankly declares: — " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any species had been formed for the exclusive good of...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." — Origin of Species, p. 162. Why did Mr. Danvin carefully use the word "species"... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - Страниц: 546
...developed, but he frankly declares: — "If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any sfccics had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." — Origin of Species, p. 162. Why did Mr. Danvin carefully use the word "species"... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - Страниц: 552
...organ could be found which natural selection could not have developed, but he frankly declares: — " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species .•'/ would annihilate my theory,... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - Страниц: 544
...but he frankly declares: — "If it could be proved that any fart of the structure of any specie 's had been formed for the exclusive good of another species it would annihilaU my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." — Origin of Specids,... | |
| George John Romanes - 1883 - Страниц: 438
...inasmuch as " natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each." Further, as Mr. Darwin adds, " if it could be proved that any part of the structure...had been formed for the exclusive good of another, it would annihilate my theory ; " and it is obvious that the same remark would equally apply to the... | |
| Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - Страниц: 518
...Indeed, with characteristic candour, he specifies certain ideas which if proved, would be fatal : " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory"... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1884 - Страниц: 396
...But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other animals, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor...found in works on natural history to this effect, I can not find even one which seems to me of any weight. It is admitted that the rattlesnake has a poison-fang... | |
| Robert Patterson - 1885 - Страниц: 324
...profitable variations. These trifles confound him. Perhaps that was one purpose of their creation. He says: "If it could be proved that any part of the structure...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been formed by natural selection."* But he immediately attempts to show that the rattlesnake's rattle is... | |
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