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... objections to the sufficiency of the natural selection hypothesis stated in detail , may look for them in the writings of Mivart , Cope . Hyatt , Packard , and Henslow . The arguments against viii PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION .
... objections to the sufficiency of the natural selection hypothesis stated in detail , may look for them in the writings of Mivart , Cope . Hyatt , Packard , and Henslow . The arguments against viii PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION .
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... selecting for breeding just those animals which had the qualities desired , allowing no others to breed . The tendency of plants to sport has already been mentioned , and such a tendency is found to an equally marked degree among ...
... selecting for breeding just those animals which had the qualities desired , allowing no others to breed . The tendency of plants to sport has already been mentioned , and such a tendency is found to an equally marked degree among ...
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... selection.1 Herbert Spencer , the distinguished English philosopher , calls the process " the survival of the fittest ; " and either name well expresses the result of that action of natural forces on the living world which has been ...
... selection.1 Herbert Spencer , the distinguished English philosopher , calls the process " the survival of the fittest ; " and either name well expresses the result of that action of natural forces on the living world which has been ...
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... selection is capable of giving rise to variations , but only that it acts in an extraordinarily powerful and certain way ( from the immense scale on which it operates ) , in giving additional chances for life and reproduction to any ...
... selection is capable of giving rise to variations , but only that it acts in an extraordinarily powerful and certain way ( from the immense scale on which it operates ) , in giving additional chances for life and reproduction to any ...
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... selecting his seed- corn , the gardener by thinning out his beds , or the cattle - raiser by selling off all his ... selection were a conscious matter . This he does not mean . No one who advo- cates his theory means thereby to imply ...
... selecting his seed- corn , the gardener by thinning out his beds , or the cattle - raiser by selling off all his ... selection were a conscious matter . This he does not mean . No one who advo- cates his theory means thereby to imply ...
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Page 226 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering...
Page 229 - America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species, — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home it occurred to me (in 1837) that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years I allowed myself to...
Page 58 - Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds — and there is no plant so unproductive as this — and their seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then in twenty years there would be a million plants.
Page 58 - ... and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.
Page 6 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 28 - On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion.
Page 229 - On my return home, it occurred to me — in 1837 — that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I...
Page 183 - ... Not being able to appreciate, or conceive, of the distinction between the psychical phenomena of a chimpanzee and of a Boschisman, or of an Aztec with arrested brain-growth, as being of a nature so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the significance of that all-pervading similitude of structure — every tooth, every bone, strictly homologous — which makes the determination of the difference between Homo...
Page 190 - Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts ; who neither eat rice nor salt, and who do not associate with each other, but rove about some woods, like wild beasts.
Page 232 - 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.