...Indeed, with characteristic candour, he specifies certain ideas which if proved, would be fatal : " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory"...

...Natural selection can not possibly produce Species.^ any modification in a species exclusively for page ' the good of another species ; though throughout nature...found in works on natural history to this effect, I can not find even one which seems to me of any weight. It is admitted that the rattlesnake has a poison-fang...

...profitable variations. These trifles confound him. Perhaps that was one purpose of their creation. He says: "If it could be proved that any part of the structure...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been formed by natural selection."* But he immediately attempts to show that the rattlesnake's rattle is...

...organ could be found which natural selection could not have developed, but he frankly declares : " If It could be proved that any part of the structure of any species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species it would annihilate my theory, for...

...was said by Darwin (" Origin of Species," chap. vi. ) : " If it could lie proved lhat any part of ihe structure of any one species had been formed for the...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced ihrough nalural selection," he evidently meant only species living without organic connection wilh...

...without some corresponding advantage to itself would handicap the competitor in the struggle for life. "If it could be proved that any part of the structure...not have been produced through natural selection. Natural selection tends only to make each organic being as perfect as, or slightly more perfect than,...

...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...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection.' 1 Mr. Darwin, as I before 2 observed, could hardly have employed words by which...

...statement made by Darwin was, that if any part of the structure of one species could be proved to have been formed for the exclusive good of another species it would annihilate his theory ("Origin," 6th edition, p. 162). Mr. Syme omits the essential word " exclusively," and thus...

...that the tree does not form them in a disinterested manner for the sake of the Cynips. Darwin says : ' If it could be proved that any part of the structure...could not have been produced through natural selection V So far as galls are concerned, Darwin's theory is perfectly safe. The 'excitatory emanations,' as...

...serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been pioduced through natural selection. Although many statements may be found in works on natural history...