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" Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ... - Página 378
por Charles Darwin - 1864 - 440 páginas
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The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 páginas
...numerous modifications of an upper lip, mandibles, and two pairs of maxillae. The same law governs the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans....being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;...
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The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Luck, or cunning?

Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 páginas
...last quoted uses " natural selection " and " descent " as though they were convertible terms. Again: " Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...pattern in members of the same class by utility or the do&rine of final causes. ... On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we...
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The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Luck, or cunning?

Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 páginas
...quoted uses " natural selection " and " descent " as though they were convertible terms. Again : " Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...pattern in members of the same class by utility or the doctirine of final causes. ... On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being,...
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Ernst Mayr - 1982 - 996 páginas
...connections no matter how the structures were modified by functional needs. As Darwin rightly said, "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes" (Origin: 435). The real explanation, says Darwin, is as simple as the egg of Columbus. All mammals,...
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

Helena Cronin - 1991 - 510 páginas
...constructed on the same pattern, and should include the same bones, in the same relative positions? ... Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...his most interesting work on the 'Nature of Limbs'. (Darwin 1859, pp. 434-5) (Owen wasn't, of course, forced to 'admit' this point; on the contrary, he...
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Memory, Amnesia, and the Hippocampal System

Neal J. Cohen, Howard Eichenbaum - 1993 - 1182 páginas
...It would be "hopeless," Darwin warns, to explain this pattern of similarity by functional utility: "The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly...his most interesting work on the 'Nature of Limbs' " (1859, p. 435). Now it appears from Darwin's phrasing ("expressly admitted") that Owen, having failed...
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Biology Laboratory Set Teachers Guide

Christian Liberty Press, Robert Glotzhaber - 2005 - 68 páginas
...approach to the interpretation of resemblances as Russell Artist points out.7 For example, Darwin says, "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. . . . On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is;...
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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in ...

Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - 354 páginas
...to the habits of life of each species" (Darwin 1859, p. 199). In the Origin Darwin had asserted that "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in the members of the same class, by utility . . ." (Darwin 1859, pp. 434-35). Hopeless or not, Cain didn't...
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Scientific Explanation and Religious Belief: Science and Religion in ...

Michael G. Parker, Thomas M. Schmidt - 2005 - 206 páginas
...exterminated by slowly acting and still existing causes, and not by miraculous acts of creation." 7. "On the ordinary view of the independent creation...being, we can only say that so it is; - that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;...
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The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo

Ron Amundson - 2005 - 302 páginas
...functional needs. As Darwin rightly said "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain the similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes." (Mayr 1982: 464) The first sentence of Mayr's passage reiterates Hull's claim of the vacuity of idealism....
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