...in excess will assuredly trinmph. This is what Mr. Darwin calls " Natural Selection," which " acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being." If Darwin, like Bruno, rejects the notion of creative power acting after human fashion, it certainly...

...this selection, and во fixing and augmenting these improvments. A condition of Nature which acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being. — Darwin, Na'turalist (L. natura, nature). One that studies, or is versed iu, Natural History. Naturalized...

...orders, and classes, as at the present time. On the Dtgree to utfuc/4 Oryauisatton tends to advance. Natural Selection acts exclusively by the preservation...and accumulation of variations, which are beneficial under the organic and inorganic conditions to which each creature is exposed at all periods of life....

...by nature, but they are destroyed. This is what Mr. Dai-win calls ' Natural Selection,' which ' acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being.' With this idea he interpenetrates and leavens the vast store of facts that be and others have collected....

...by natuif. but they are destroyed. This is what Mr. Darwin calk ' Natural Selection,' which ' acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being.' With this idea he interpenetrates and leavens the vast store of facts that he and others have collected....

...work, and are probably the sole differences which are effective in the production of new species." J " Natural Selection acts only by the preservation and...accumulation of small inherited modifications, each modification being profitable to the preserved animal." || * Orlrjin of Species, 6th Ed., p. 269. f...

...but at the same time to protest again and again that it is not a cause. Accordingly he writes that "Natural Selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications," t — that is to say, it has had no share in inducing or causing these modifications. Again, " What...

...variations occur ;" that is, favourable to the development of new species. Natural selection, he observes, acts exclusively "by the preservation and accumulation of variations which are beneficial under the organic and inorganic conditions of life to which each creature is at each successive period...

...variations occur ;" that is, favourable to the development of new species. Natural selection, he observes, acts exclusively "by the preservation and accumulation of variations which are beneficial under the organic and inorganic conditions of life to which each creature is at each successive period...

...species along a line of variation that is advantageous to it is by exceedingly minute steps, and that " natural selection acts only by the preservation and...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being ; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single...