 ... 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 placed in a most conspicuous position— namely, at the close of the Introduction...  A Text-book of zoology v. 2 - Page 355by Thomas Jeffery Parker - 1897Full view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1888 - 476 pages
...studies. Darwin has distinctly said in his first edition of the "Origin of Species," "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification;" and in his sixth edition of the same work, in quoting these words, he laments that he is still misunderstood... | |
 | John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.' If asked how far he extends the doctrine of the mutability of species, he replies : 'The question is... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...acknowledged varieties of any species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification." As may be expected from these brave words, Mr. Darwin goes forward to prove the point. It is very simple... | |
 | Biology - 1909 - 826 pages
...he placed at the end of the introduction to his first edition, the following words: I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification (p. 421). 3. The following explicit statement makes it very clear that Darwin did not regard natural... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1872 - 540 pages
...Darwin repeats in this edition even more emphatically than in previous ones that " he is convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification of species." Since then other causes have been at work to cause the evolution of species, why may not... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is tho power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of scicuca... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1882 - 524 pages
...conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." ' 1 The importance, from a religious point of view, of the concession that the modification of species... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Philosophy and religion - 1876 - 492 pages
...appear in each case. At the end of the Introduction of the first edition he says : " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification." In the last edition he says : " I ain convinced that natural selection has been the most important,... | |
 | Bible - 1876 - 898 pages
...conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction — the following words : ' I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification.' " ' To realize how indeterminate the problem of the origin of species is, even after Mr. Darwin leaves... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Matter - 1876 - 488 pages
...appear in each case. At the end of the Introduction of the first edition he says: " I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification." In the last edition he says:" I am convinced that natural selection has been the most important, but... | |
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