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" natural selection " himself, but he is actually able to take away some of that power from nature which before his appearance she universally exercised. We can anticipate the time when the earth will produce only cultivated plants and domestic animals... "
The Action of Natural Selection on Man - Page 22
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 54 lehte
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The Anthropological Review, 2. köide

1864 - 668 lehte
...influence over other existences. Man has not only escaped " natural selection" himself, but he actually is able to take away some of that power from nature which,...countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth. Briefly to recapitulate the argument; — in two distinct ways has man escaped the influence of those...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 490 lehte
...modify all other organic beings. Nay more ; this victory which he has gained for himself, gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...Species is true, man too must change in form, and be- , come developed into some other animal as different from his present self as he is from the Gorilla...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...modify all other organic beings. Nay more ; this victory which he has gained for himself, gives him a directing influence over other existences. Man has...cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth, Their Searing on the future Development of Man. We now find ourselves enabled to answer those who maintain,...
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Modern Scepticism: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Request of the ...

Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 lehte
...man's selection shall have supplanted natural selection; and when the ocean will be the only domain hi which that power can be exerted, which for countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over the earth."* * Mr, Wallace, in the "Anthropological Journal," 1864; see also Lubbock's " Prehistoric...
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Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 696 lehte
...natural selection ; ' and when the ocean will be the only domain in INCREASE OP HAPPINESS. 593 • which that power can be exerted, which for countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over the earth." Thus, then, the great principle of Natural Selection, which is to biology what the law...
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Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 2. köide

Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (Bath, England) - 1873 - 536 lehte
...extending the same reasoning to the vegetable world, where it may equally be applied, writing thus :—" We can anticipate the time when the earth will produce...cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth." ! Thus, in conclusion, have we seen biology, even mere local biology, to be indeed a large subject....
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Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution

George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 lehte
...to man. " We may anticipate the time," says Mr Wallace — perhaps with a little exaggeration, — " when man's selection shall have supplanted Natural...countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth."1 The struggle for existence will continue between man and man — for if it ceased man would...
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Christian Prayer and General Laws, Being the Burney Prize Essay for the Year ...

George John Romanes - 1874 - 288 lehte
...words of Mr Wallace, the influence of human intelligence over organic life upon a cosmical scale. " Man has not only escaped 'natural selection' himself,...countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth 1." § 11. Now the application of this indisputable fact — the fact that our intelligence is above...
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Christian prayer and general laws. Burney prize ssay, 1873. With an appendix ...

George John Romanes - 1874 - 286 lehte
...words of Mr Wallace, the influence of human intelligence over organic life upon a cosmical scale. " Man has not only escaped 'natural selection' himself,...countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth1." § 1 1. Now the application of this indisputable fact — the fact that our intelligence is...
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The Past in the Present: What is Civilization?

Sir Arthur Mitchell - 1881 - 382 lehte
...influence over other existences. Man has not only escaped 'natural selection' himself, but he actually is able to take away some of that power from Nature which,...cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth." (P. 168.) " In the latter part of the paper, the argument is the contrast between change of body and...
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