Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of Its ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 494 pages |
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... island of St. Helena led to the entire destruction of the native forests , consisting of about a hundred distinct species of trees and shrubs , the young plants being devoured by the goats as fast as they grew up . The camel is a still ...
... island of St. Helena led to the entire destruction of the native forests , consisting of about a hundred distinct species of trees and shrubs , the young plants being devoured by the goats as fast as they grew up . The camel is a still ...
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... islands of botany , and especially to droughts that dried up the lakes and almost the river itself - no ordinary plant could live , even on this rich and watered alluvial debris . The only plants that escaped the cattle were such as ...
... islands of botany , and especially to droughts that dried up the lakes and almost the river itself - no ordinary plant could live , even on this rich and watered alluvial debris . The only plants that escaped the cattle were such as ...
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... island with ample vegetable and insect food , but no other competing or destructive birds or quadrupeds -their numbers ... islands is taken at ten millions — and this is probably far under the mark — then about fifty millions of birds ...
... island with ample vegetable and insect food , but no other competing or destructive birds or quadrupeds -their numbers ... islands is taken at ten millions — and this is probably far under the mark — then about fifty millions of birds ...
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... island to Mexico and to other parts of America , and in 1587 , sixty - five years after the conquest of Mexico , the Spaniards exported 64,350 hides from that country and 35,444 from St. Domingo , an indication of the vast numbers of ...
... island to Mexico and to other parts of America , and in 1587 , sixty - five years after the conquest of Mexico , the Spaniards exported 64,350 hides from that country and 35,444 from St. Domingo , an indication of the vast numbers of ...
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... island less than fifty years ago is helping to alter the character of the vegetation up to an elevation of 3000 feet . This is the Lantana mixta , a verbenaceous plant introduced from the West Indies , which appears to have found II 29 ...
... island less than fifty years ago is helping to alter the character of the vegetation up to an elevation of 3000 feet . This is the Lantana mixta , a verbenaceous plant introduced from the West Indies , which appears to have found II 29 ...
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Page 337 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 478 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 40 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Page 412 - I have now recapitulated the facts and considerations which have thoroughly convinced me that species have been modified during a long course of descent. This has been effected chiefly through the natural selection of numerous successive, slight, favourable variations; aided in an important manner by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts; and in an unimportant manner, that is in relation to adaptive structures, whether past or present, by the direct action of external conditions, and...
Page 474 - The special faculties we have been discussing clearly point to the existence in man of something which he has not derived from his animal progenitors — something which we may best refer to as being of a spiritual essence or nature, capable of progressive development under favourable conditions.
Page 38 - Starting, and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springing upon me. I was upon a little height ; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat.
Page 31 - Not far from Shelbyville, in the State of Kentucky, about five years ago, there was one of these breeding places, which stretched through the woods in nearly a north and south direction ; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever the branches could accommodate them.
Page 31 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Page 265 - That the imitative species occur in the same area and occupy the same station as the imitated. (2) That the imitators are always the more defenceless. (3) That the imitators "are always less numerous in individuals. ( 4 ) That the imitators differ from the bulk of their allies. (5) That the imitation, however minute, is external and visible only, never extending to internal characters or to such as do not affect the external appearance.
Page 476 - These three distinct stages of progress from the inorganic world of matter and motion up to man, point clearly to an unseen universe — to a world of spirit, to which the world of matter is altogether subordinate.