...this argument. Nor would they argue with Darwin's important observation concerning his own theory: "If it could be proved that any part of the structure...such could not have been produced through natural selection."99 No, Sober and Wilson are not annihilating Darwin. Their argument is not that the behavior...

...throughout nature one species incessantly takes advantage of, and profits by, the structure of another. ... If it could be proved that any part of the structure...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection. (Darwin 1859, pp. 200-1) For example, some authors had asserted that the rattlesnake's...

...needing explanation. Why so? Darwin himself recognized that an exclusively other- benefiting trait "would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection." And yet, it appeared that the world in fact did contain such traits, from sterile, otherserving castes...

...Species (1859): "If it could be proved that any part of the structure [or, by implication, the behavior] of any one species had been formed for the exclusive...such could not have been produced through natural selection."46 So far, no such case has been found. Destructive exploitation of one species by another,...

...Symbiosis: Darwin Abhorred its Possibility In his book, Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin mused, "If it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection. " (Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species, 1859, p.64). Darwin's theory, as we know, is predicated on...

...special difficulty, which my theory has encountered."9 Of interspecies altruism he declares that if "any part of the structure of any one species had...formed for the exclusive good of another species, it 7. Darwin, Origin, 442. 8. Both quotations are from Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford...

...some words of further elucidation. When it was said by Darwin (" Origin of Species," chap. vi. ) : " If it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection," he evidently meant only species living without organic connection with each other, viz. his own example...

...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ;" and "if it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection." — p. 220 It is almost impossible for Mr. Darwin to have used words by which more thoroughly to stake...

...possibly produce any modification in any one species exclusively for the good of another species (...). If it could be proved that any part of the structure...theory for such could not have been produced through naturel selection. » jouit de ses moyens de défense, grâce auxquels il peut se protéger des attaques...

...elucidation. \\hen it was said by Darwin (" Origin of Species," chap. vL) : " If it could be proved (hat any part of the structure of any one species had been...not have been produced through natural selection," he evidently meant only species living without organic connection with each other, viz. his own example...