Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism

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D. Appleton, 1878 - 396 páginas

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Página 131 - 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 3 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Página 38 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Página 6 - ROBERTSON, The late Rev. FW, MA—TM& and Letters of. Edited by the Rev. Stopford Brooke, MA I. Two vols., uniform with the Sermons. With Steel Portrait. Crown 8vo, "js.
Página 6 - Essays on Astronomy. A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and Sun-surrounding Space, Stars and Star Cloudlets. By RA Proctor, BA With 10 Plates and 24 Woodcuts.
Página 276 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Página 18 - 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 104 - 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 18 - 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 40 - Climate plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or drought seem to be the most effective of all checks.

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