Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic EvolutionLondon, 1895 - 591 páginas |
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Página vii
... important- vitally important - that such distinction should not be con- ferred on the unworthy . And hence some one assumes the part of detractor . He tries to find out all that can be said against the individual singled out for the ...
... important- vitally important - that such distinction should not be con- ferred on the unworthy . And hence some one assumes the part of detractor . He tries to find out all that can be said against the individual singled out for the ...
Página viii
... important topic which has long exercised the thought of the wisest of his day and generation , it might be supposed that common modesty would compel him to mistrust his own judgment ; and seeing that he is doubtless making some foolish ...
... important topic which has long exercised the thought of the wisest of his day and generation , it might be supposed that common modesty would compel him to mistrust his own judgment ; and seeing that he is doubtless making some foolish ...
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... importance that we should clearly understand what we mean by Natural Selection , and realise that the phrase implies a very com- plex idea . But in order to understand what Natural Selection is we must first get a clear idea of what we ...
... importance that we should clearly understand what we mean by Natural Selection , and realise that the phrase implies a very com- plex idea . But in order to understand what Natural Selection is we must first get a clear idea of what we ...
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... important position in relation to the transmutation of species , it might be expected that they would be quite agreed as to what Natural Selection is that they would have a very clear and definite notion as to what is meant by this term ...
... important position in relation to the transmutation of species , it might be expected that they would be quite agreed as to what Natural Selection is that they would have a very clear and definite notion as to what is meant by this term ...
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... importance - such as the nature of the variations from which selection is made ; the strictness or laxity of the selection ; the result of the selection ; whether it be the survival of the fittest , or only the elimination of the least ...
... importance - such as the nature of the variations from which selection is made ; the strictness or laxity of the selection ; the result of the selection ; whether it be the survival of the fittest , or only the elimination of the least ...
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Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution Charles Clement Coe Vista completa - 1895 |
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Términos y frases comunes
action of Natural adapted animals argument Artificial Selection assertion assume attack become believe birds black rat breed brown rat burrow caterpillars cause chance co-operation colour Colours of Animals competition correlated variation Darwin destruction difficulty dogs effect eggs enemies evidence experience extermination external conditions extinction fact favourable variations female fertile fittest geometrical ratio germ plasm habits hare herd illustration individuals inherited insects instinct intelligence isolation kind larvæ less live male means of Natural modification Natural Selection Naturalist necessarily nest neuter observed obvious occur offspring Organic Evolution Origin of Species phenomena plants possible preservation prey Prince Kropotkin principle produced protection race reason resemblance result Romanes says seems sexual reproduction Sexual Selection similar variants sometimes stability of species structure struggle for existence supposed survival take place theory of Natural tion transmutation of species varieties Wallace Weismann white-tailed eagle wild young
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Página 40 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Página 492 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 312 - So careful of the type' ? but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.
Página 467 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, - if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass; the same hips and haws on the autumn's hedgerows; the same redbreasts that we used to call "God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 531 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea...
Página 132 - Say,' there be : Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 449 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...
Página 45 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Página 68 - Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies ; for instance, on a piece of ground three feet long and two wide, dug and cleared, and where there could be no choking from other plants, I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up, and out of the 357 no less than 295 were destroyed, chiefly by slugs and insects.
Página 132 - But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler...