My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... results , whether they con- firm or refute the theory here indicated . " ALFRED R. WALLACE . " " 9 St. Mark's Crescent , Regent's Park , N.W. , March , 1867 . 66 This letter brought me only one reply , from a gentleman in Cumberland ...
... results , whether they con- firm or refute the theory here indicated . " ALFRED R. WALLACE . " " 9 St. Mark's Crescent , Regent's Park , N.W. , March , 1867 . 66 This letter brought me only one reply , from a gentleman in Cumberland ...
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... result must inevitably be an endless variety of unstable forms , no one of which would answer to what we mean by the word ' species . ' No other cause but selection has yet been discovered capable of perpetuating and giving sta- bility ...
... result must inevitably be an endless variety of unstable forms , no one of which would answer to what we mean by the word ' species . ' No other cause but selection has yet been discovered capable of perpetuating and giving sta- bility ...
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... results in man , had not much force if , as he believed , I admitted that the plumes of the birds of paradise had thus been gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely rejected the whole of that part of ...
... results in man , had not much force if , as he believed , I admitted that the plumes of the birds of paradise had thus been gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely rejected the whole of that part of ...
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... result of observa- tions and experiments carried on for forty - four years , he enjoyed the great satisfaction of its being a wonderful success , while it was received by the reviewers with unanimous praise and applause . During this ...
... result of observa- tions and experiments carried on for forty - four years , he enjoyed the great satisfaction of its being a wonderful success , while it was received by the reviewers with unanimous praise and applause . During this ...
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... result of natural selection acting through such combats . The second is an inference from the observed facts of the display of the male plumage or ornaments ; but the statement that ornaments have been developed by the female's choice ...
... result of natural selection acting through such combats . The second is an inference from the observed facts of the display of the male plumage or ornaments ; but the statement that ornaments have been developed by the female's choice ...
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