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" This progression, by minute steps, in various directions, but always checked and balanced by the necessary conditions, subject to which alone existence can be preserved, may, it is believed, be followed out so as to agree with all the phenomena presented... "
Popular Science Monthly - Page 21
1902
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 17

1859 - 512 pages
...know what meaning to attach to it. Mr. Wallace says, "This progression by minute steps in different directions, but always checked and balanced by the...of form, instinct and habits which they exhibit." Does he mean that by the tendency to vary we may explain all the differences that obtain between different...
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology, Volumes 3-4

1859 - 578 pages
...directions, but olwaya ehecked and balanced by the necessary cou» ditious, subject to which aloue existence can be preserved, may, it is believed, be...followed out so as to agree with all the phenomena preaented by organized bcings, thcir extinction and •uoeaasion in past agea, and all the extraordinary...
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Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, Volume 8

1860 - 400 pages
...nature will also explain why domestic varieties have a tendency to revert to the original type. The progression, by minute steps, in various directions,...extraordinary modifications of form, instinct, and habit which they exhibit." The possibility of departing indefinitely from the original type is here...
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Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, Volume 8

Royal Geological Society of Ireland - 1860 - 414 pages
...nature will also explain why domestic varieties have a tendency to revert to the original type. The progression, by minute steps, in various directions,...extraordinary modifications of form, instinct, and habit which they exhibit." The possibility of departing indefinitely from the original type is here...
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Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, Volume 8

Geological Society of Dublin - 1860 - 422 pages
...tendency to revert to the original type. The progression, by minute steps, in various directions, hut always checked and balanced by the necessary conditions,...extraordinary modifications of form, instinct, and habit which they exhibit." The possibility of departing indefinitely from the original type is here...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 pages
...why domestic varieties have a tendency, when they become wild, to revert to the original type. This progression, by minute steps, in various directions,...modifications of form, instinct and habits which they exhibit. III. MIMICRY, AND OTHER PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCES AMONG ANIMALS. THERE is no more convincing proof of...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 pages
...why domestic varieties have a tendency, when they become wild, to revert to the original type. This progression^ by minute steps, in various directions,...modifications of form, instinct and habits which they exhibit. III. MIMICRY, AND OTHEE PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCES AMONG ANIMALS, THERE is no more convincing proof of...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 47

1871 - 578 pages
...steps, in various directions, but always checked by certain necessary conditions, may serve to explain " all the phenomena presented by organized beings, their...of form, instinct, and habits which they exhibit." In his essay on "Mimicry and other Protective Resemblances amongst Animals," Mr. Wallace makes an important...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 47

1871 - 588 pages
...steps, in various directions, but always checked by certain necessary conditions, may serve to explain " all the phenomena presented by organized beings, their...of form, instinct, and habits which they exhibit." In his essay on "Mimicry and other Protective Resemblances amongst Animals," Mr. Wallace makes an important...
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Chapters on Evolution

Andrew Wilson - 1883 - 444 pages
...tendency, when they become wild, to revert to the original type. This progression," continues Mr. Wallace, "by minute steps in various directions, but always...so as to agree with all the phenomena presented by organised beings, their extinction and succession in past ages, and all the extraordinary modifications...
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