 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Keith Ward - 1998 - 333 pages
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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. 
