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" It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth... "
Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution - Página 255
de Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd - 2008 - 342 páginas
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Early Life: Evolution on the Precambrian Earth

Lynn Margulis, Michael Dolan - 2002 - 196 páginas
...ameba's cytoplasm and, in the end, have become organelles. "It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...about, and with worms crawling through the damp Earth," Darwin wrote in the final paragraph of The Origin of Species, "and to reflect that these elaborately...
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The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton

Jill M. Kress - 2002 - 290 páginas
...figure that nonetheless obstructs the view of the "fields": It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bush6 The Figure of Consciousness es, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling...
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The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective

Kimberley Tolley - 2003 - 308 páginas
...14 33 5ti ci tigation: "clothed with many plants of many kinds, with hirds, singing on the hushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth , , , iall] dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, "">> Restricted by social mores from...
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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale : the Untold Story of Science and the ...

Judith Hooper - 2002 - 412 páginas
...bank' passage in the Origin, the last words in the book: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constricted forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner,...
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Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Volume 4, The ...

Allan Sandage, Louis Brown, Patricia Parratt Craig - 2004 - 298 páginas
...complexity" in his classic book On The Origin of Species. His example of the entangled bank, "clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes,...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth," remains a strong metaphor to this day.' 8 Though he never called himself an ecologist (the word would...
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The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in ...

Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - 354 páginas
...perfection. Such claims abound in Darwin's writings. Consider the famous closing words of the Origin: It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,...
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Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Matt Young, Taner Edis - 2004 - 268 páginas
...Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, dothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with I'arious insects /lifting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that...
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2003 Lectures

2004 - 494 páginas
...the humans and the birds shed upon 'the mutual relations of all the beings which live around us', the 'entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth', where Darwin (1859: 6, 433. 439, 489) sought 'descent ... the hidden bond of connexion'. 'Pigeons If...
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The Squashed Philosophers

Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 páginas
...the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, insects flitting about and worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these forms,...
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The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 páginas
...aware (nor was I) of the closing lines of The Origin of Species - the famous 'entangled bank' passage, 'with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth'. Had he been, he would certainly have identified with it and, instead of the priesthood, might have...
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