 acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being." With this idea he interpenetrates and leavens the vast store of facts that he and others have collected. We cannot, without shutting our...  Nature - Page 315edited by - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...valleys or to the formation of the longest lines of inland cliff's. Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 350 pages
...To use a familiar proverb, the weakest comes to the wall. But the triumphant fraction again breeds to over-production, transmitting the qualities which...is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1874 - 132 pages
...To use a familiar proverb, the weakest comes to the wall. But the triumphant fraction again breeds to overproduction, transmitting the qualities which...is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1874 - 132 pages
...To use ' a familiar proverb, the weakest comes to the wall. But the triumphant fraction again breeds to overproduction, transmitting the qualities which...is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1874 - 562 pages
...favourable quality has been transmitted in excess will assuredly triumph. It is easy to see that we hivi here the addition of increments favourable to the...is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1874 - 80 pages
...still more rigorously carried out than in the case of domestication ; for not only are unfavorable specimens not selected by Nature, but they are destroyed....is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | 1874 - 532 pages
...still more rigorously carried out than in the case of domestication ; for not only are unfavorable specimens not selected by nature, but they are destroyed....is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to diicern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | 1874 - 806 pages
...still more rigorously carried out than in the case of domestication ; for not only are unfavorable specimens not selected by Nature, but they are destroyed....is here dealing, not with imaginary, but with true causes ; nor can we fail to discern what vast modifications may be produced by natural selection in... | |
 | 1875 - 360 pages
...supervenes, and those to whom the favourable quality has been transmitted in excess will assuredly trinmph. This is what Mr. Darwin calls " Natural Selection,"...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being." If Darwin, like Bruno, rejects the notion of creative power acting after human fashion, it certainly... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1875 - 586 pages
...working out this selection, and во fixing and augmenting these improvments. A condition of Nature which acts by the preservation and accumulation of...modifications, each profitable to the preserved being. — Darwin, Na'turalist (L. natura, nature). One that studies, or is versed iu, Natural History. Naturalized... | |
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