...the forms of life! OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST From the 'Origin of Species ' 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...

...preservative, not causative. This, indeed, is all that Darwin himself claimed for natural selection. " It implies only the preservation of such variations...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life," 1 are his words. The rest was left to chance. Romanes adopts natural selection as his theory of the...

...misapprehended or objected to the term vj Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that Natxiral Selection induces variability, whereas it implies...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...

...procedure at all, as so many writers say. It is, as Darwin insisted, only a metaphor. Thus he writes : — "Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to...

...select or preserve profitable variations. All through, Nature, or natural selection,4 1 " Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability,...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." — Origin of Species, p. 58. 2 " Unless such occur, natural selection can do nothing." — Ibid. p....

...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...

...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...

...the third edition of "the Origin" he attempted to clear up this point by means of this statement : Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection even induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and...

...Darwin's own time, and corrected by Darwin himself in later editions of his book, in which he says : " Some have even imagined that Natural Selection induces...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." If Natural Selection cannot cause a variation — as, of course, it cannot — it is quite clear that,...

...Darwin's own time, and corrected by Darwin himself in later editions of his book, in which he says : " Some have even imagined that Natural Selection induces...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." If Natural Selection cannot cause a variation — as, of course, it cannot — it is quite clear that,...