 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 370 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...organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic condition of life.15 Besides this, concepts like the adaptation of organisms to their environments... | |
 | Trevor Palmer - 2003 - 560 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...wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes... | |
 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - 2004 - 332 pages
...variations and the destruction of unfavourable ones. 141 As observers, however, Darwin remarked that 'we see nothing of these slow changes in progress,...lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we see only that the forms of life are now different from what they... | |
 | Giorgio Bernardi - 458 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). Abbreviations and acronyms • A, CsCl band asymmetry, <p>-p0 • BAC(s), Bacterial... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - 354 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, p. 84) Introduction Considered as a whole, the two most striking aspects of the evolution... | |
 | Elizabeth Grosz - 2004 - 330 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" (os 112; emphasis in original). Natural selection works most efficiently and relentlessly when the... | |
 | Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinnen. Symposion - 2004 - 642 pages
...though, because there is no way of empirical recognition of these long term processes of variation: «We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the lapse of ages».8 Darwin tries to solve this epistemological problem of lack of empirical proof by changing... | |
 | Judith Hooper - 2002 - 412 pages
...those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working . . . at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic life.'8 Natural Selection would be even more powerful than artificial selection, he believed, for 'Man... | |
 | Giorgio Bernardi - 458 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 wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement oj each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" (Darwin, 1859).... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 pages
...world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and...in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only... | |
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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... 
