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" ... one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 601
1885
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English, Science, and Engineering: A Collection of Expository Essays for ...

Joshua Lawrence Eason, Maurice Harley Weseen - 1921 - 472 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, "Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition?" Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in the...
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A Bee Melody

Herbert Brown - 1923 - 292 pages
...caterpillars in which they have hatched ; he said it was more satisfactory to regard such things " not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law " — the law of variation and " the survival of the fittest." The indictment of the workers for murder...
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Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species ...

Charles Darwin - 1987 - 710 pages
...cormorants with living fish, not as instincts specially given by the Creator, but as very small parts of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings,— Multiply, Vary, let the strongest forms by their strength Live & the Weakest forms Die. — CHAPTER...
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The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today

Helena Cronin - 1991 - 510 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, "Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition?'" (Peckham 1959, p. 396). Rather than trying to show how natural selection compensates...
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Modern Environmentalism: An Introduction

David Pepper - 1996 - 388 pages
...look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster brothers — ants making slaves . . . not as specially endowed or created instincts but...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. (p. 219) Natural selection in each well-stocked country, must act chiefly through the competition of...
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Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries

Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer - 1996 - 872 pages
...Molothrus bonariensis that he quotes my words, and asks, "Must we consider these habits, not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, namely, transition?" Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in the...
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The Avian Brood Parasites: Deception at the Nest

Paul A. Johnsgard - 1997 - 422 pages
...instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Behavioral Ecology of Brood Parasites In...
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Darwinian Evolution

Antony Flew - 180 pages
...the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, - ants making 25 slaves, - the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, -...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die' (ibid., p. 263). (c) Chapter VIII, 'Hybridism', argues that the facts here seem not to be opposed to,...
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Seeing in the Dark: Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming

Bert O. States - 1997 - 284 pages
...as blind motion words] . Or consider the almost 'dramatist' mode of expression in his reference to 'one general law leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die' " (1962, 153-54). Implicitly, then, Burke anticipates Dawkinsian evolutionary theory by positing the...
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Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as ...

Mike Hawkins - 1997 - 360 pages
...endeavoured to account for 'the changing history of the organic world' (151). He did so by proposing 'one general law, leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die' (263). According to this law, minute variations in the organisation of an organism, induced largely...
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