Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles DarwinD. Appleton, 1884 - 351 من الصفحات |
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... varieties of the dog have descended from a sin- page 15 . gle wild species , or from several . Some au- thors believe that all have descended from the wolf , or from the jackal , or from an unknown and extinct species . Others again ...
... varieties of the dog have descended from a sin- page 15 . gle wild species , or from several . Some au- thors believe that all have descended from the wolf , or from the jackal , or from an unknown and extinct species . Others again ...
الصفحة 56
... varieties with our present dogs . As long as man was believed to have existed on this earth only about six thousand years , this fact of the great diversity of the breeds at so early a period was an argument of much weight that they had ...
... varieties with our present dogs . As long as man was believed to have existed on this earth only about six thousand years , this fact of the great diversity of the breeds at so early a period was an argument of much weight that they had ...
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... varieties , as beneath their notice . In several cases the wild prototype is unknown or doubtfully known ; and in other cases it is hardly possible to distin- guish between escaped seedlings and truly wild plants , so that there is no ...
... varieties , as beneath their notice . In several cases the wild prototype is unknown or doubtfully known ; and in other cases it is hardly possible to distin- guish between escaped seedlings and truly wild plants , so that there is no ...
الصفحة 63
... varieties would sooner or later arise . Or a wild and unusually good variety of a native plant might attract the attention of some wise old savage ; and he would transplant it , or sow its seed . That superior varieties of wild fruit ...
... varieties would sooner or later arise . Or a wild and unusually good variety of a native plant might attract the attention of some wise old savage ; and he would transplant it , or sow its seed . That superior varieties of wild fruit ...
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... varieties , which have sup- planted their early progenitors . Origin of Species , page 10 . UNKNOWN LAWS OF INHERITANCE . The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown . No one can say why the same peculiarity in ...
... varieties , which have sup- planted their early progenitors . Origin of Species , page 10 . UNKNOWN LAWS OF INHERITANCE . The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown . No one can say why the same peculiarity in ...
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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.