| Frederick John Teggart - 1925 - 264 páginas
...in concluding the Origin of Species, he remarked that "as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection."10 The form in which the problem of 'evolution' presented itself to Darwin was how species... | |
| John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - 262 páginas
...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 towards perfection." Now let us compare these affirmations of optimism with typical statements by contemporary... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 páginas
...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. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of... | |
| Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 páginas
...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. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of... | |
| J. William Schopf - 1999 - 182 páginas
...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,... | |
| Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 páginas
...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." However, since the nineteenth century when these confident words were penned, we have experienced two... | |
| Hans Schwarz - 2000 - 452 páginas
...refrain from pointing toward the future by writing: "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." Two words are signifscant in this statement: "progress" and "perfection." Indeed, the discerning eye... | |
| John Cartwright - 2000 - 406 páginas
...the origin of species, at the end of Origin he says: 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. (Darwin, 1859, p. 459) But progress to large brains was never inevitable. Natural... | |
| Roger Lewin - 1999 - 276 páginas
...Steve. "The most famous one comes from near the end: '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.' But historians make a mistake when they try to find utter consistency in the world... | |
| John Offer - 2000 - 696 páginas
...Species (1859:489), the last sentence of which reads: "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." Here, it is important to realize, Darwin is using the language employed by the... | |
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