The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeJohn Murray, Albemarle Street., 1891 - 432 páginas |
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... animals tend to vary in some degree , and , secondly , that agriculturists improve their domesticated animals by selection ; and then , he adds , but what is done in this latter case " by art , seems to be done with equal efficacy ...
... animals tend to vary in some degree , and , secondly , that agriculturists improve their domesticated animals by selection ; and then , he adds , but what is done in this latter case " by art , seems to be done with equal efficacy ...
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... animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this obscure problem . Nor have I been disappointed ; in this and in all other perplexing cases I have invariably found that our knowledge , imperfect though it ...
... animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this obscure problem . Nor have I been disappointed ; in this and in all other perplexing cases I have invariably found that our knowledge , imperfect though it ...
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... animals , one of the first points which strikes us is , that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature . And if we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants ...
... animals , one of the first points which strikes us is , that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature . And if we reflect on the vast diversity of the plants ...
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... animals when reared under new or unnatural con- ditions . Many facts clearly show how eminently susceptible the reproductive system is to very slight changes in the surrounding conditions . Nothing is more easy than to tame an animal ...
... animals when reared under new or unnatural con- ditions . Many facts clearly show how eminently susceptible the reproductive system is to very slight changes in the surrounding conditions . Nothing is more easy than to tame an animal ...
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... animals can be named which has not in some country drooping ears ; and the view which has been suggested that the drooping is due to disuse of the muscles of the ear , from the animals being seldom much alarmed , seems probable . Many ...
... animals can be named which has not in some country drooping ears ; and the view which has been suggested that the drooping is due to disuse of the muscles of the ear , from the animals being seldom much alarmed , seems probable . Many ...
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