I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the... The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 136by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 lehteFull view - About this book
| Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Gregory Radick - 2003 - 504 lehte
...what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters .... [Nature] can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 lehte
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of lire. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends — It may... | |
| Elizabeth Grosz - 2004 - 330 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection" (os 111-112). When selective pressures... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her, as is implied by the fact of their selection. Man keeps the natives of many climates... | |
| Tim Friend - 2004 - 296 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...Nature only for that of the being which she tends." In addition to the characteristics that are inherited from one's parents, humans and animals have individual... | |
| Elizabeth A. Wilson - 2004 - 140 lehte
...an argument in relation to body parts (eg, the eye) and to whole groups (species): "[Nature] can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life" (1859, 69). It is clear from Darwin's texts and from his early notebooks that the aspect of Lamarckian... | |
| Jack Leonard Benson - 2004 - 228 lehte
...reference to that world that I was able to find in Origins occurs in Chapter IV: "she (Nature) can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life." At another point, in discussing eyes, he used, with feigned reluctance but very tendentiously, the... | |
| Judith Hooper - 2002 - 412 lehte
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except so far as they may be useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life.'9 The single example drawn from nature was the phenomenon of insect mimicry reported by the naturalist... | |
| Peter Achinstein - 2005 - 316 lehte
...nature cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they may be usefiil to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...which she tends. Every selected character is fully exercised by her; and the being is placed under well-suited conditions of life. Man keeps the natives... | |
| Carol Reeves - 2005 - 148 lehte
...fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional...Nature only for that of the being which she tends. (Darwin, 1859: 38-9) Commentary In this example, Darwin uses argument from relationship in order to... | |
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