...bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature. He soon saw that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of plants and animals. But how was selection applied in a state of nature ? The reading of Malthus on...

...hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as facts are shown, to be opposed to it." And again: " I soon saw that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants." Are not these two simple statements worthy to be inscribed in letters of gold, framed, and placed where...

...of his predecessors even remotely approximated; and he very soon had his reward in the discovery " that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants." (I, p. 83.) This was the first step in Darwin's progress, though its immediate result was to bring...

...keystone of success in making useful races of animals and plants. The mystery to him for a long while was how selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature. More than a year after thus beginning his systematic inquiry he happened to read for amusement " Malthus...

...read and abstracted, including whole series of the journals and transactions of learned societies. He soon perceived that selection was the keystone of...success in making useful races of animals and plants. Breeders of pigeons and cattle, and horticulturists had long studied how to produce certain breeds,...

...anything that might correspond to these, his own words, in nature — at all events at the first look. " How selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time," he says, " a mystery to me." The exact " some time," we are told, was " fifteen months." After fifteen...

...of his predecessors even remotely approximated ; and he very soon had his reward in the discovery " that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants." (I. p. 83.) This was the first step in Darwin's progress, though its immediate result was to bring...

...breeders and gardeners and by extensive reading he soon perceived that selection was the " key stone of man's success in making useful races of animals...plants." But how selection could be applied to organisms in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery to him. In October, 1838, for amusement he read...

...addressed printed enquiries to such as seemed likely to give him information. He was led to the conclusion that ' selection was the keystone of man's success...in making useful races of animals and plants ;' but he could not understand how selection could be applied in a state of nature. The reading for amusement...

...enquiries, by conversation with skilful breeders, and by extensive reading. •' I soon found," he says, " that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of plants and animals." When useful or pleasing varieties of plants or animals occur, the gardener or...