Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - 351 من الصفحات |
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... remarkable powers of movement . SELF - PROTECTION DURING SLEEP . The fact that the leaves of many plants Page 284 . place themselves at night in widely different positions from what they hold during the day , but with the one point in ...
... remarkable powers of movement . SELF - PROTECTION DURING SLEEP . The fact that the leaves of many plants Page 284 . place themselves at night in widely different positions from what they hold during the day , but with the one point in ...
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... remarkable . The cotyledons of Phalaris became curved toward a distant lamp , which emitted so little light that a pen- cil held vertically close to the plants did not cast any shadow which the eye could perceive on a white card . These ...
... remarkable . The cotyledons of Phalaris became curved toward a distant lamp , which emitted so little light that a pen- cil held vertically close to the plants did not cast any shadow which the eye could perceive on a white card . These ...
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... remarkable accordance in the power of digestion between the gastric juice of animals , with its pepsin and hydrochloric acid , and the secretion of Drosera with its ferment and acid be- longing to the acetic series . We can , therefore ...
... remarkable accordance in the power of digestion between the gastric juice of animals , with its pepsin and hydrochloric acid , and the secretion of Drosera with its ferment and acid be- longing to the acetic series . We can , therefore ...
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... remarkable fact that the young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults have lost this power . As the larger ground - feeding birds seldom take flight , except to escape danger , it is probable that the nearly ...
... remarkable fact that the young birds , according to Mr. Cunningham , can fly , while the adults have lost this power . As the larger ground - feeding birds seldom take flight , except to escape danger , it is probable that the nearly ...
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... remarkable characters , seems improbable or they must have become extinct in the wild state . But birds breed- ing on precipices , and good fliers , are unlikely to be ex- terminated ; and the common rock - pigeon , which has the same ...
... remarkable characters , seems improbable or they must have become extinct in the wild state . But birds breed- ing on precipices , and good fliers , are unlikely to be ex- terminated ; and the common rock - pigeon , which has the same ...
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الصفحة i - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
الصفحة 347 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
الصفحة 110 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
الصفحة 72 - The key is man's power of accumulative selection: nature gives successive variations; man adds them up in certain directions useful to him. In this sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.
الصفحة 254 - It is incredible that all these facts should speak falsely. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation.
الصفحة 44 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.
الصفحة 308 - But as my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been 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 — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not thé exclusive means of modification.