 In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 461869Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 566 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.'* If the ursine species had not been restricted to northern latitudes, we might have surmised this to... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. — P. 165. 'We should like to know how much credulity is necessary to enable one to adopt such stories... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale ! "* Now, if this is not the Lamarckian theory of development, it is surely closely akin to it. " The... | |
 | 1860 - 580 pages
...supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." — P. 184. Such credulity will find no difficulties. Could we only get up, or rather down, to the... | |
 | 1860 - 390 pages
...insects wore constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." (P. 184.) Before entering upon this, however, we must explain what " Natural Selection " means. We... | |
 | 1860 - 580 pages
...supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as^ji_\yhale." —P. 184. Such credulity will find no difficulties. Could we only get up, or rather... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist iu the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...selection, more and more aquatic in their structure ind habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as1 monstrous as a whale."... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in iheir structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. As we sometimes see individuals of a species following habits widely different from those both of their... | |
 | James Lamont - 1861 - 362 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, he can see no dimculty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." I see no difficulty in it either, but it is certainly a very extreme case to put, and there is much... | |
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