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" Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of the more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its... "
Year-book of Nature and Popular Science for 1872 - Page 239
edited by - 1873 - 333 pages
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology, Volumes 3-4

1859 - 578 pages
...constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as thcir thorter-neclced companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 11

1860 - 390 pages
...any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them." Wallace, p. 6.) With a limited number of very curious facts, which I have not space here to notice...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 458 pages
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially ,of insects, so closely resembling the soil...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 pages
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as tlieir shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 pages
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially of insects, so closely resembling the soil...
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Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 434 pages
...among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over tJie same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were tJiereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially of insects,...
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Unconscious Memory

Samuel Butler - 1880 - 338 pages
...any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them " (italics in original).1 This is absolutely the neo-Darwinian doctrine, and a denial of the mainly...
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Creeds of the day; or, Collated opinions of reputable thinkers, 3 ..., Volume 1

Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 pages
...occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them." Again, Mr. Wallace was the first to elaborate the marvellous principle of mimicry, the discovery of...
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Selections from Previous Works with Remarks on Mr. G.J. Romanes' "Mental ...

Samuel Butler - 1884 - 354 pages
...neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their short-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them" (italics in original).* This is absolutely the neo-Darwin doctrine, and a denial of the mainly fortuitous...
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Unconscious Memory: A Comparison Between the Theory of Dr. Ewald Hering and ...

Samuel Butler - 1890 - 304 pages
...stretching its neck for this purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them " (italics in original).1 This is absolutely the neo-Darwinian doctrine, and a denial of the mainly...
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