...so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful to any organic being ever do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised...life; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised This principle of preservation, or the...

...Grundüberlegung der Selektionstheorie rekonstruiert. Darwin faßte sein Argument folgendermaßen zusammen: „If during the long course of ages and under varying...chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and frorn the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised....

...well peopled with many species of many genera, families, orders, and classes, as at the present day. Summary of chapter If during the long course of ages...characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in th^ struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring...

...through inheritance. If variations useful to any being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the...inheritance, they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection....

...so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful to any organic being ever do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterised...life; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, or the...

...another; (3) since there are variations useful to organic beings, individuals with useful variations "will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life"; and (4) individuals with useful variations will pass on the beneficial traits to the next generation and...

...But if variations useful to any organic being ever do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the...inheritance, they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural...

...position to do better than others in this struggle for existence. These better-adapted individuals 'will have the best chance of being preserved in the...tend to produce offspring similarly characterised'. Long-term change is thus effected, not merely through variation, but through natural selection steadily...

...claimed, "if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life" ([1859] 1964, 127; italics added; see also, eg, pp. 61, 81). In other words, we expect that the fittest...

...well peopled with many species of many genera, families, orders, and classes, as at the present day. If during the long course of ages and under varying...life; and from the strong principle of inheritance 107 they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, I...