 | Keith Ansell-Pearson - 1997 - 296 pages
...variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up that which is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. (1993: 162) 158 'We' can only imperfectly perceive the results of these changes; we cannot, however,... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - 1997 - 336 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."22 Now it might be thought that Darwin had merely clothed an entirely cold and bloodless mechanism... | |
 | James Reeve Pusey - 1998 - 276 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."110 All that may be said is that natural selection, when the organic and inorganic conditions... | |
 | Joseph Lopreato, Timothy Alan Crippen - 2001 - 348 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. Lewontin's (1979: 6 — emphasis in original) charge follows: I call that approach to evolutionary... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - 1999 - 348 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. [Darwin 1859, pp. 83-4] 23 The productions of nature, Darwin resonately observed, were "far 'truer'... | |
 | Gillian Beer - 2000 - 316 pages
...every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions ofliCr. (133) In the second edition he varies this to 'It may metaphorically be said'. The sense of... | |
 | Jean Aitchison - 2000 - 300 pages
...can act only by very short and slow steps.'11 This slow progress made it unobservable, he assumed: 'We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapses of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only... | |
 | John Offer - 2000 - 696 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. Thus, in a sense, it is... | |
 | Izabella Nowakowa, Leszek Nowak - 2000 - 546 pages
...variations. rejecting those that are bad. preserving and adding up all that are good: silently and intesibly working. whenever and wherever opportunity offers. at the improvement of each organic heing in relation to its orgamc and inorganic conditions of life We see nothing of these slow changes... | |
 | Lee Alan Dugatkin - 2001 - 580 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages. Charles Darwin (1859, 133) Reading through the Origin as a graduate student, I was struck by the contradiction... | |
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever... 
