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" Even the peculiar colours of many animals, especially insects, so closely resembling the soil or the leaves or the trunks on which they habitually reside, are explained on the same principle; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may... "
Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical ... - Page 32
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 492 lehte
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 458 lehte
...same principle ; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from their enemies would inevitably suii-ive the longest. We have also here an acting cause to account for that balance so often observed...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...same principle; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...cause to account for that balance so often observed in nature,—a deficiency in one set of organs always being compensated by an increased development of...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 434 lehte
...many tints may have occurred, yet tliose races having colours best adapted to concealment from tlieir enemies would inevitably survive the longest. We have...cause to account for that balance so often observed in nature,—a deficiency in one set of organs always being compensated by an increased development of...
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Popular Science Monthly, 60. köide

1902 - 584 lehte
...same principle ; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...deficiency in one set of organs always being compensated by\an increased development of some others — powerful wings accompanying weak feet, or great velocity...
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DARWIN AND MODERN SCIENCE

A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 lehte
...same principle ; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...their enemies would inevitably survive the longest*." It would occupy too much space to attempt any discussion of the difference between the views of these...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ton to Zym

1911 - 1120 lehte
...resemblance of animals, and more especially of insects, to their surroundings, and points out that " those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...their enemies would inevitably survive the longest." In 1871 Wallace's two essays, written at Sarawak and Témate, were published with others as a volume,...
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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., 28. köide

1911 - 1140 lehte
...resemblance of animals, and more especially of insects, to their surroundings, and points out that " those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...their enemies would inevitably survive the longest." In 1871 Wallace's two essays, written at Sarawak and Ternatc, were published with others as a volume,...
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Impressions of Great Naturalists: Reminiscences of Darwin, Huxley, Balfour ...

Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1924 - 290 lehte
...though hi the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colors best adapted to concealment from their enemies would inevitably survive the longest. Returning from the Archipelago in 1862, he published in 1864 his pioneer paper, "The Malayan Papilionidae...
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Impressions of Great Naturalists: Darwin, Wallace, Huxley, Leidy, Cope ...

Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1928 - 358 lehte
...same principle; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from...their enemies would inevitably survive the longest. Returning from the Archipelago in 1862, he published in 1864 his pioneer paper, "The Malayan Papilionidse...
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In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A ...

Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 lehte
...same principle; for though in the course of ages varieties of many tints may have occurred, yet those races having colours best adapted to concealment from their enemies would inevitably survive the longest."20 Wallace then concludes his analysis by restating his thesis: "We believe we have now shown...
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