 | Franco Moretti - 2005 - 140 páginas
...by signs of hesitation, possibly because of the religious echoes associated with the Tree of Life: 'The affinities of all the beings of the same class...tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth': Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859; facsimile of the first edition, Cambridge, MA 2001, p.... | |
 | Al Ries, Laura Ries - 2009 - 322 páginas
...Life THE "GREAT TREE OF LIFE" is how Charles Darwin described his metaphor for the origin of species. "The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. . . . The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 páginas
...individuals varying in the right direction, so as better to fill the vacancy. The affinities of creatures have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. In the diagram, each horizontal line may be supposed to represent a thousand, or a million or hundred... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...explanation of this great fact in the classification of all organic beings; but, to the best of my judgment, it is explained through inheritance and the complex...represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all... | |
 | Stephen A. Norwick - 2006 - 496 páginas
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 | Stephen A. Norwick - 2006 - 496 páginas
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 | David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 páginas
...was misled by the concluding section of the chapter containing the diagram, in which Darwin states "The affinities of all the beings of the same class...may represent existing species; and those produced each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species" (129). But even here species... | |
 | Frank Forencich - 2006 - 330 páginas
...thanks to Jeri Helen for sculpting my words and polishing my manuscript. A COPIOUSLY BRANCHING BOOK The affinities of all the beings of the same class...have sometimes been represented by a great tree... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - 2006 - 23 páginas
...diagram is a visual corollary of Darwin's evolutionary version of the "Tree of Life." "The aff1nities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree," Darwin writes, and "I believe this simile largely speaks the truth." But he gives this common taxonomic... | |
 | Bruce D. Olsen - 2007 - 278 páginas
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The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during each former year... 
