The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifePenguin UK, 1982 M07 29 - 480 páginas With his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 1850s, it is a rigorously documented but highly readable account of the scientific theory that now lies at the root of our present attitude to the universe. Challenging notions such as the fixity of species with the idea of natural selection, and setting forth the results of pioneering work on the ecology of animals and plants, it made a lasting contribution to philosophical and scientific thought. |
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... tobe, and was, read by the general educated public. The chief difficulty it presents to the layman is notthat of scientific jargon andcertainly notthatof mathematics, which, itmaybe reassuring to know, Darwin regretfully admitted he ...
... tobe, and was, read by the general educated public. The chief difficulty it presents to the layman is notthat of scientific jargon andcertainly notthatof mathematics, which, itmaybe reassuring to know, Darwin regretfully admitted he ...
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... tobe. There mustbe some utility tothe organism itself. On the special creation view, ofcourse, there wasnoreason atall whyGod, having created the rattlesnake, presumably asasign of displeasure, shouldnot have so farrelented towards its ...
... tobe. There mustbe some utility tothe organism itself. On the special creation view, ofcourse, there wasnoreason atall whyGod, having created the rattlesnake, presumably asasign of displeasure, shouldnot have so farrelented towards its ...
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... tobe awayfor fiveyears. Science inthe first halfof the nineteenthcentury benefited enormously from the journeys of traveller-naturalists or men of scientific interestwho obtained berths on survey shipsas naturalists or surgeons ...
... tobe awayfor fiveyears. Science inthe first halfof the nineteenthcentury benefited enormously from the journeys of traveller-naturalists or men of scientific interestwho obtained berths on survey shipsas naturalists or surgeons ...
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... tobe made in the theory of biological classification if hisviews are adopted and resemblances are regardedas the result ofcommon descent. The development of biology, and men's ideas about the natural world, are given a new and decisive ...
... tobe made in the theory of biological classification if hisviews are adopted and resemblances are regardedas the result ofcommon descent. The development of biology, and men's ideas about the natural world, are given a new and decisive ...
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... tobe won bybuccaneering methods. In Asia, Africa and thePacific there were backward peoples (a phrase with an evolutionary ring) to bebrought within the orbit of the world's marketsand taught theirnecessary subordination to the white ...
... tobe won bybuccaneering methods. In Asia, Africa and thePacific there were backward peoples (a phrase with an evolutionary ring) to bebrought within the orbit of the world's marketsand taught theirnecessary subordination to the white ...
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INTRODUCTION | |
CHAPTER | |
ranging muchdiffused andcommon speciesvary most Species | |
CHAPTER FOUR | |
DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY | |
INSTINCT | |
making instinct Difficulties on the theory of the Natural | |
appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differencesin physical conditions Importance of barriers Affinityof the productions ofthe same contin... | |
Distribution of freshwater productions On the inhabitants | |
Difficulties onthe theoryof | |
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Términos y frases comunes
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