 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Joshua Lawrence Eason, Maurice Harley Weseen - 1921 - 472 pages
...had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1923 - 868 pages
...spheres at a given distance from one another and of equal size, the result would be the Tiive-comb type. Darwin then resorted to experiment. He placed...habit from less perfect expressions, and appealed, of coarse, to natural selection as tending to develop an instinct which was obviously economical of space,... | |
 | 1902 - 598 pages
...explained on the ground of reflex action. Darwin 6 observed that the construction of cells by bees seemed to be "a sort of balance struck between many bees all instinctively standing at the same distance ■Wood : Homes Without Hands, p. 79. *Ibid., p. 75. » Figuier : The Insect World, p. 367.... | |
 | Edmund Noble - 1926 - 602 pages
...interval as well as of form. "The work of construction," says Darwin, in explaining the honeycomb, "seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...trying to sweep equal spheres, and then building up or removing, leaving ungnawed, the planes of intersection between these spheres." Regular distances are... | |
 | Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer - 1996 - 872 pages
...worked into the gmwing edges of the cells all CELL-MAKING INSTINCT 2O1 round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty, as when two pieces of comb met at an angle, how... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 486 pages
...had been placed, and worked into die growing edges of die cells all round. The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many...spheres, and then building up, or leaving ungnawed, die planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficulty,... | |
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The work of construction seems to be a sort of balance struck between many bees, all instinctively standing at the same relative distance from each other, all trying to sweep equal spheres, and then building up, or leaving ungnawed, the planes of intersection... 
