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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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Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution

Gary Cziko - 1997 - 404 pages
...cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, — ants making slaves, — the larvae of echneumonidae [wasps] feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, —...or created instincts, but as small consequences of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles...
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On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 pages
...young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, — ants making slaves, — the larvas of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, —...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. CHAPTER VIII HYBRIDISM Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids — Sterility...
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Hottentot Venus: A Novel

Barbara Chase-Riboud - 2007 - 338 pages
...as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneu monoid ea feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not...to the advancement of all organic beings — namely . . . let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Should we have let the Venus live . . . have...
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Evolution and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives During the Eclipse of ...

Bert Bender - 2004 - 414 pages
...(The Log from the Sea of Cortez 244) — reiterates Darwin's point in The Origin of Species: there is "one general law leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die" (The Origin of Species 208). While one might think that Steinbeck would have been on safe ground reiterating...
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Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of ...

Richard W. Burkhardt - 2005 - 649 pages
...the young cuckoo ejecting its fosterbrothers, — ants making slaves, — the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars —...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die." 10 In the Origin, Darwin steered clear of the sensitive subject of human evolution. Twelve years later,...
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The Squashed Philosophers

Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...ichneumonidae larvae feeding within live caterpillars, are not specially created instincts, but are small consequences of one general law, leading to...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Chapter VIII HYBRIDISM The view generally entertained by naturalists is that species, when intercrossed,...
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The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious ...

James A. Herrick - 2004 - 340 pages
...the larvae of the ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars — not as especially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences...leading to the advancement of all organic beings. Darwin's argument is couched in such a way as to make evolution compatible with theism, a view Darwin...
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Perspectives on Argumentation: Essays in Honor of Wayne Brockriede

Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 pages
...young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,— ants making slaves,— the larvae of the ichneumon idae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars,—...law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings (Darwin, 1967, pp. 243-244). Here the reader is placed in a double bind; if he or she affirms the traditional...
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Darwin and the Nature of Species

David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 pages
...ciple/theory/doctrine or the process/power, a "law." Instead, he leaves it implicit, as when, for example, he refers to "one general law, leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die" (244), or when he refers to "the laws which have governed the production of so-called specific forms"...
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Person, Grace, and God

Philip A. Rolnick - 2007 - 281 pages
...young cuckoo ejecting its foster brothers, — ants making slaves, — the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, —...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. Models that attempt to explain natural altruistic behavior in terms of natural selection are models...
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