Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic EvolutionLondon, 1895 - 591 páginas |
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... true an opinion may be , if it is not fully , frequently , and fearlessly discussed , it will be held as a dead dogma , not a living truth . This is not the way in which truth ought to be held by a rational being . This is not knowing ...
... true an opinion may be , if it is not fully , frequently , and fearlessly discussed , it will be held as a dead dogma , not a living truth . This is not the way in which truth ought to be held by a rational being . This is not knowing ...
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... true , O brother men ! nor yet the new . Ah ! still awhile the old thought retain , And yet consider it again . ” — A . Clough . By what process have all the different kinds of animal and vegetable organisms become what we now see them ...
... true , O brother men ! nor yet the new . Ah ! still awhile the old thought retain , And yet consider it again . ” — A . Clough . By what process have all the different kinds of animal and vegetable organisms become what we now see them ...
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... true , it follows that there may be , and are , really more than one theory of Natural Selection ; that the logical inferences of the theory may not always agree with the facts of nature ; that we must allow for the personal equation ...
... true , it follows that there may be , and are , really more than one theory of Natural Selection ; that the logical inferences of the theory may not always agree with the facts of nature ; that we must allow for the personal equation ...
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... true to say— " The origin of mimetic coloration , like many other things , is yet unknown . An orthodox Darwinian attributes it to Natural Selection , which turns out on analysis to be hazard . The survival of useful coloration is no ...
... true to say— " The origin of mimetic coloration , like many other things , is yet unknown . An orthodox Darwinian attributes it to Natural Selection , which turns out on analysis to be hazard . The survival of useful coloration is no ...
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... true with regard to human marriages . In calculating the inheritance of human stature , Mr. Galton regards the union of tall and short individuals as accidental . And Will Carleton in his Farm Ballads makes an amusing protest to a ...
... true with regard to human marriages . In calculating the inheritance of human stature , Mr. Galton regards the union of tall and short individuals as accidental . And Will Carleton in his Farm Ballads makes an amusing protest to a ...
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Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution Charles Clement Coe Vista completa - 1895 |
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...