...edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."53 In history the Judéo-Christian tradition offered the hope for worldly perfection,...

...exploration of which is the central purpose of this book: "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection" (Darwin 1859, p. 489; 1959, p. 758). In previous chapters we have examined the...

...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.* * C. Darwin, On The Origin of Species (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,...

...Silurian age, they seem to me to become ennobled. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...

...last two pages of Origin of Species, it is stated that "[as] natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection," and the book ends with the remark that "there is grandeur in this view of life"...

...by the Creator" an. Sem Deismus macht für ihn plausibel: „Natural selection works solely ... for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." On the Origin ofSpecies, Cambridge 1964, 489f. In seiner Theorie nimmt er jedoch...

...some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. " Charles Darwin In this final section of the chapter I describe the development of the theory of evolution...

...some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. (Darwin, 1859, p. 373) This text is interesting in many different ways. First, it is typical of the...

...great, continuous chain of being, constantly changing. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection" (Darwin nd [1859]:373). But this was the product of the interaction of individual organisms and species...

...social preference more than nature's record in writing: "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." Life's pathway certainly includes many features predictable from laws of nature,...