 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...their defence against other adversaries, because the females of these species are without this armour. The final cause of this contest amongst the males...the species, which should thence become improved. Another- great want consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1914 - 926 pages
...who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor. . . . The final cause of this contest amongst the males...the species, which should thence become improved." ARTHUR DENDY. University of London, King's College, November 19. Intra-p.tomic Charge. Ix a previous... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...because the females of these species are without this armour. The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be that the strongest and most...the species, which should thence become improved." * Dr. Darwin would have been on stronger ground if he had said that the effect of the contest among... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 956 pages
...game birds are armed, and which they use in fighting, he says: " The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be that the strongest and most...the species, which should thence become improved." We cannot see, however, that he had any clear notion of the general act.on of the law of the survival... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...defence against other adversaries, " because the females of these species are " without this armour. The final cause of this " contest amongst the males...that the " strongest and most active animal should pro" pagate the species, which should thence become " improved. " Another great want consists in the... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...defence against other adversaries, " because the females of these species are " without this armour. The final cause of this " contest amongst the males...that the " strongest and most active animal should pro" pagate the species, which should thence become " improved. " Another great want consists in the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...these species are without this armour. The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be (hat the strongest and most active animal should propagate...the species, which should thence become improved." * Dr. Darwin would have been on stronger ground if he had said that the effect of the contest among... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 668 pages
...possession of the female, he says : — " ' The final cause of this contest amongst the males scons to be, that the strongest and most active animal should...the species, which should thence become improved.' " He concludes as follows the long passage in which this idea occurs : — "'From thus meditating on... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 266 pages
...not provided for their defence against other adversaries, because the females in these species are without this armor. The final cause of this contest...improved." Also (as has been suggested to me by Professor GM Harmon of Tufts College), Dr. Darwin seems to have appreciated the fact of a struggle for existence,... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 268 pages
...against other adversaries, becanse the females in these species are without this armor. The final canse of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that...improved." Also (as has been suggested to me by Professor GM Harmon of Tufts College), I>r. Darwin seems to have appreciated the fact of a struggle for existence,... | |
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The final cause, of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved. 
