My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... selection and survival of the fittest , so that every spontaneous variation should survive in equal proportion with all others , and the result must inevitably be an endless variety of unstable forms no one of which would answer to what ...
... selection and survival of the fittest , so that every spontaneous variation should survive in equal proportion with all others , and the result must inevitably be an endless variety of unstable forms no one of which would answer to what ...
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... selection has yet been dis- covered capable of perpetuating and giving stability to some forms , and causing the disappearance of others , and therefore Mr. Darwin's book , if there is any truth in it at all , has a logical claim to its ...
... selection has yet been dis- covered capable of perpetuating and giving stability to some forms , and causing the disappearance of others , and therefore Mr. Darwin's book , if there is any truth in it at all , has a logical claim to its ...
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... selection having produced certain results in man , had not much force if , as he believed , I admitted that the plumes of the birds of paradise had been thus gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely ...
... selection having produced certain results in man , had not much force if , as he believed , I admitted that the plumes of the birds of paradise had been thus gained . At that time , though I had begun to doubt , I had not definitely ...
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... Selection and Tropical Nature , " in 1891. But I cannot here refrain from quoting a passage from Huxley's striking obituary notice in Nature , summing up his work in a single short paragraph : " None have fought better , and none have ...
... Selection and Tropical Nature , " in 1891. But I cannot here refrain from quoting a passage from Huxley's striking obituary notice in Nature , summing up his work in a single short paragraph : " None have fought better , and none have ...
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... selection . It might be as well urged that because man has produced the pouter - pigeon , the bull - dog , and the dray - horse , none of which could have been produced by natural selection alone , therefore the agency of natural selection ...
... selection . It might be as well urged that because man has produced the pouter - pigeon , the bull - dog , and the dray - horse , none of which could have been produced by natural selection alone , therefore the agency of natural selection ...
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