 | Grant Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 226 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.' It must be noticed, however, that Erasmus Darwin here imports into the question the metaphysical and... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Natural history - 1886 - 344 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. 'Another great want consists in the means of procuring food, which has diversified the forms of all... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 224 pages
...possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . 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... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - Biology - 1901 - 494 pages
...horns of the stag, the spurs of cocks and quails. " The final cause," he says, " of this contest among the males seems to be that the strongest and most...propagate the species, which should thence become improved " (p. 238). This savors so strongly of sexual selection that we wonder very much that Charles Darwin... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - 1912 - 478 pages
...females ; 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." Here the principle of selection seems to be clearly enough recognized, at any rate that form thereof... | |
 | Arthur Dendy - Biology - 1924 - 536 pages
...the times of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor." • • ••••• " The final causei of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that...the species, which should thence become improved." Here the principle of selection seems to be clearly enough recognized, at any rate that form thereof... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - Science - 1981 - 360 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 - 1879 - 670 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 action of the law of the survival... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...birds that were armed with spurs he found proof of a truth applicable to all of living nature, namely, "that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved."18 These laws of organic nature far from excepting the human species found their fullest... | |
 | Trevor Palmer - Nature - 2003 - 560 pages
...process. In his Zoonomia, he wrote about the competition between male animals for females and continued, 'The final cause of this contest amongst the males...the species, which should thence become improved'. Erasmus Darwin also showed himself to be aware of the pressures of overpopulation, perhaps as a result... | |
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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. 
