 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1869 - 628 lehte
...desires, or wellbeing. How, then, was an organ developed so far beyond the needs of its possessor? Natural selection could only have endowed the savage...one but very little inferior to that of the average members of our learned societies. Again, what a wonderful or ganis the hand of man ; * of what marvels... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 lehte
...They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher. The soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 lehte
...imagination, and reason. I cannot, therefore, understand how it is that Mr. "Wallace " maintains, that "natural selection could only have endowed the savage...with a brain a little superior to that of an ape." Although the intellectual powers and social habits of 69 'Quarterly Review,' April, 1869, p. 392. This... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 lehte
...namely, that Mr. Wallace, " with characteristic unselfishness, ascribes it (»'. e, the idea of " tion could only have endowed the savage with a brain " a little superior to that of an ape." Although the intellectual powers and social habits of man are of paramount importance to him, we must... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 lehte
...They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher. The soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 lehte
...They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape ; whereas, he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher.' Again, ' the soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 lehte
...They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher. The soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 64 lehte
...They possess a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher. The soft, naked, sensitive skin of man, entirely free... | |
 | William Fraser - 1873 - 406 lehte
...he says, " a mental organ beyond their needs. Natural Selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a little superior to that of an ape ; whereas, he actually possesses one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." Mr. Wallace also specifies other facts in the natural... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1874 - 840 lehte
...understand how it is that Mr. Wallace67 maintains, that "natural selection could only have endowed tho " savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape." Although the intellectual powers and social habits of man are of paramount importance to him, we must... | |
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Natural Selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the average members of our learned societies. 
