 | Michael Ruse - History - 2003 - 392 pages
...combatting other stags for the exclusive possession of the females" (Darwin 1801, 2.237). He concluded: "The final cause of this contest amongst the males...the species, which should thence become improved" (2.238). But adaptation was far from Erasmus Darwin's main focus, and in support of his evolutionism... | |
 | Lance Workman, Will Reader - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 432 pages
...members of the same sex. In The Laws of Organic Life, he states: The final course of this contest among males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species which should thus be improved. (Darwin, cited in King-Hele, 1968, p. 5) Although we can see close similarities between... | |
 | Göran Arnqvist, Locke Rowe - Science - 2005 - 356 pages
...Zoonomia ( 1 794), he argued that the "purpose" of reproductive competition is to improve the species. "The final cause of this contest amongst the males...the species, which should thence become improved." This heritage is echoed in two prevalent ideas in modern evolutionary biology, which both ascribe similar... | |
 | Daryl Ogden - Social Science - 2006 - 288 pages
...determine procreative outcomes. The passage in questions reads: "The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be, that the strongest and most...the species, which should thence become improved" (503). Erasmus Darwin is here exploring something akin to what Charles called "the law of battle" rather... | |
 | Christopher Upham Murray Smith, Robert Arnott - History - 2005 - 452 pages
...particularly at those animals where the males combat each other for possession of the females. The outcome is 'that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved'.27 This confident statement expresses the essence of natural selection, that the species... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Science - 2007 - 25 pages
...mechanism of sexual selection, saying that the outcome of the 'contests among the males' in some species is 'that the strongest and most active animal should...the species, which should thence become improved'. In expressing these ideas Darwin committed a serious crime. He tacitly assumed that God had no role... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 660 pages
...the males of animals are armed, and their contest for the possession of the female, he says : — " ' The final cause of this contest amongst the males...seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal sliould propagate the species, which should thence become improved.'" He concludes as follows the long... | |
 | Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - Natural history - 1878 - 756 pages
...improvement of animals. With respect to Sexual Selection, he observes " the final cause of this contention amongst the males seems to be that the strongest and...animal should propagate the species, which should hence become improved." He lays stress on the effect of the natural or artificial cultivation of animals,... | |
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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. 
