 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1862 - 552 páginas
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears 274 being rendered by natural selection more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with large and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale" (p. 184).* And the final... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt - 1985 - 726 páginas
...like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, ... I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. In the second edition, CD inserted 'almost' before 'like a whale' in the first sentence and deleted... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - 400 páginas
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."104) Owing to the comments that this passage gave rise to, Darwin struck out its latter part,... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1994 - 484 páginas
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. (Later editions of the Origin kept the first factual sentence and expunged all the rest.) A statement... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 288 páginas
...like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, . . ., I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.' (Origin, p. 184). 8 Anthony Trollope referred to The Times as the 'Daily Jupiter', in The Warden (1855)... | |
 | John Michell, Bob Rickard, Robert J. M. Rickard - 2000 - 404 páginas
...sea with its mouth open, and he wrote: 'II can see no difficulty in a race of bears being ten dered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." It is a pity he never saw the evidence for his theory in the bear-whale on Margate beach. This is an... | |
 | Paavo Pylkkänen, Tere Vadén - 2001 - 226 páginas
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. (Darwin 1859: 184) Mayr (1982:612) goes as far as concluding that "Many if not most acquisitions of... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - 2004 - 700 páginas
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale (Origin of Species, 1859, p. 184). * The celebrated Victorian anatomist Richard Owen tried to get the... | |
 | James P. Hogan - 2004 - 272 páginas
...unlimited degree. In the first edition of Origin (later removed) he said, "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." But,... | |
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I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. 
