...ejecting its foster-brothers, — ants making slaves, — the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding with the live bodies of caterpillars, — not as specially...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die" (Origin 243-44). "Nor ought we to marvel . . . if some of them ["contrivances in nature"] be abhorrent...

...the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,— ants making slaves, — the larvae of ichneumonidaj feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars,—...of one general law, leading to the advancement of aO organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. CHAPTER VIII....

...affinity between human beings and other animals. He described instincts, for example, as manifestations of "one general law, leading to the advancement of...multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."2 This tendency to convert Darwinian narratives into natural law has been extended in evolutionary...

...the laws, here emphasized, of "centripetal and centrifugal" forces come as close home as Darwin's " one general law leading to the advancement of all...vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."* But, as the author says: "the results have a broader application than is at first apparent, and underlie...

...was not perhaps a logical conclusion, but it seemed to him 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. WH Hudson, Wasps ' - шш rM^j тая • ШР...

...its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larva? of ichneumonidee feeding within the live bodieii of caterpillars, not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of ooe general law leading- to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the...