Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to DarwinismD. Appleton, 1889 - 396 páginas |
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... Matter . - Dionæa , and other Plants of the same Order . - Utricularia and Pinguicula . - Sarracenia and Nepenthes . Climbing Plants ; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and Auto- matic ...
... Matter . - Dionæa , and other Plants of the same Order . - Utricularia and Pinguicula . - Sarracenia and Nepenthes . Climbing Plants ; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and Auto- matic ...
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... matter , such as oxygen and hy- drogen , and the definite compounds of these ele- mentary matters , and their compounds again , in the mineral kingdom , as constituting species , in the same sense , fundamentally , as that of animal and ...
... matter , such as oxygen and hy- drogen , and the definite compounds of these ele- mentary matters , and their compounds again , in the mineral kingdom , as constituting species , in the same sense , fundamentally , as that of animal and ...
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... matter in certain directions , must necessarily produce planetary orbits of the exact measure and form in which observation shows them to exist - a view which is just as consistent with eternal necessity , either in the atheistic or the ...
... matter in certain directions , must necessarily produce planetary orbits of the exact measure and form in which observation shows them to exist - a view which is just as consistent with eternal necessity , either in the atheistic or the ...
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... matter . Though , if machines could engender , the adaptive method would be most economical ; and economy is said to be a paramount law in Nature . The origination of the improvements , and the suc- cessive adaptations to meet new ...
... matter . Though , if machines could engender , the adaptive method would be most economical ; and economy is said to be a paramount law in Nature . The origination of the improvements , and the suc- cessive adaptations to meet new ...
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... matter . Suppose , then , a square billiard - table to be placed with its corners directed to the four cardinal points . Suppose a player , standing at the north corner , to strike a red ball directly to the south , his design being to ...
... matter . Suppose , then , a square billiard - table to be placed with its corners directed to the four cardinal points . Suppose a player , standing at the north corner , to strike a red ball directly to the south , his design being to ...
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Página 129 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Página 396 - ON SOUND : A Course of Eight Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Página 274 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Página 16 - ... of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups. Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush, only two or three, now grown into great branches, yet survive and bear the other branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few have left living and modified descendants.
Página 16 - The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
Página 102 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Página 102 - ... 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 the exclusive means of modification.