| E. Edmond - 1887 - 274 páginas
...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 776 páginas
...precise words repeated in several places (see pages 71, 91, 123, &c.). At page 91 he says : — " Some writers have misapprehended or objected to the term natural selection. Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability ; whereas it implies only the preservation of such... | |
| William Ward McLane - 1892 - 280 páginas
...life as tend more and more to become improved in relation to their environment. " Natural selection implies only the preservation of such variations as...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." 1 " Man selects only for his own good, Nature only for that of the being which she tends." " Sexual... | |
| 1892 - 472 páginas
...ELLIOT, Inheritance of Acquired Characters. *JQ tions, I call natural selection.* — Some," he states, "have even imagined that natural selection induces...implies only the preservation of such variations as occur, and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life" ; and he farther says,t "unless... | |
| James Iverach - 1894 - 264 páginas
...Cunningham, p. xxi.) With this view of the action of natural selection Mr. Darwin seems himself to agree : " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life" (Origin of Species, p. 110). But does Mr. Darwin himself always use the words in this sense ? On the... | |
| Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 páginas
...possessors. This fact is more distinctly pointed out in the same work (p. 63) where the author remarks: "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection, and in this case... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 páginas
...would ultimately become fixed, owing to the nature of the organism and the nature of the conditions. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection ; and in this case... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 páginas
...would ultimately become fixed, owing to the nature of the organism and the nature of the conditions. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection ; and in this case... | |
| Edward Drinker Cope - 1904 - 580 páginas
...possessors. This fact is more distinctly pointed out in the same work (p. 63) where the author remarks: "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agricultur1sts speaking of the potent effects of man's selection, and in this case... | |
| Edward Drinker Cope - 1896 - 576 páginas
...possessors. This fact is more distinctly pointed out in the same work (p. 63) where the author remarks: "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection, and in this case... | |
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