 When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent.  Unconscious Memory - Page 9by Samuel Butler - 1880 - 288 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Kathryn Coe - 2003 - 236 lehte
...introduction to On the Origin of Species, "I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of inhabitants of South America, and in the geological...seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries" (1859). The mystery of mysteries that would lead Darwin to his... | |
 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - 2004 - 332 lehte
...that preoccupied Charles Darwin as he pondered the origin of species. Competition, Competition . . . When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much...to me to throw some light on the origin of species ..." Prelude Belief in the Deluge encouraged a belief in the fixity of species. Ante-diluvian creatures... | |
 | James W. Valentine - 2004 - 639 lehte
...longer than the universe has been around. Take just the first sentence of Darwin's Origin of Species: "When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." Given a monkey with a thirty-key typewriter, randomly striking a key per second, it would on average... | |
 | David Rains Wallace - 2004 - 374 lehte
...Owen wrote a spiteful review of The Origin of Species, singling out for ridicule its assertion that "certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants...relations of the present to the past inhabitants" might "throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries." He scoffed that "what... | |
 | Laurie Ann Callihan - 2004 - 294 lehte
...origin of and relationships between groups of species INTRODUCTION. WEEK on board BMS ' Beagle,' tat naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of tho organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the... | |
 | 2004 - 494 lehte
...the hidden bond of connexion'. 'Pigeons If You Please' Darwin's Origin of Species (1859: 1) begins: 'When on board HMS "Beagle", as naturalist, I was...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . .' Darwin certainly used the many facts he recorded during his five years on the Beagle in supporting... | |
 | John Henry Morgan - 2005 - 265 lehte
...namely, the opening paragraph of The Origin of Species, 1859 edition, seems in order at this juncture: When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Sean B. Carroll - 2006 - 326 lehte
...would emerge more than twenty years later as On the Origin of Species, the opening lines of which read: When on board HMS Beagle as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 2006 - 47 lehte
...period. Darwin uses the word 'facts' in each of the first three sentences of the Origin of Species: When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 lehte
...presenting himself as a passive witness to active facts rather than as a theorist with an active mind. "When on board HMS 'Beagle' as naturalist, I was much...struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past... | |
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