...plants and animals. The following words give Darwin's own estimate of the importance of Selection. "Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the...

...creation of organic beings or of any great and sudden modification of structure. " Again (p. 132): "Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the...

...widi what geology tells us of the rate and manner at which die inhabitants of this world have changed. Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble...powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to die amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic...

...process as destined to continue in ways that increase beauty, harmony and complexity without limit: 'I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the...complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings.'8 The metaphor of a war of nature here gives way to a different metaphor; that of a developing...

...Natural Selection, for example, Darwin quite suddenly seems inspired by what threatens to exhaust him: Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by Ms powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite...

...process as destined to continue in ways that increase beaury, harmony and complexity wichour limit: 'I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beaury and infinite complexity of the coadaprations between all organic beings.'8 The meraphor of a...

...with what geology tells us of the rate and manner at which the inhabitants of the world have changed. Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the...

...exterminated. The gap between man and his nearest relations will grow wider, for man will be more civilized. Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do that much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity...

...allows himself an oblique positive reference or two while also praising the workmanship of nature and the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings. But from an ancient perspective it is what Darwin's ideas challenged, more than the components of the...

...with what geology tells us of the rate and manner at which the inhabitants of this world have changed. Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of 80 artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity...