 In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 461869Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 288 pages
...thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, . . ., I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.' (Origin, p. 184). 8 Anthony Trollope referred to The Times as the 'Daily Jupiter', in The Warden (1855)... | |
 | John Michell, Bob Rickard, Robert J. M. Rickard - 2000 - 404 pages
...sea with its mouth open, and he wrote: 'II can see no difficulty in a race of bears being ten dered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." It is a pity he never saw the evidence for his theory in the bear-whale on Margate beach. This is an... | |
 | Paavo Pylkkänen, Tere Vadén - 2001 - 226 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. (Darwin 1859: 184) Mayr (1982:612) goes as far as concluding that "Many if not most acquisitions of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2003 - 676 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. As we sometimes see individuals of a species following habits widely different from those both of their... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - 2004 - 700 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale (Origin of Species, 1859, p. 184). * The celebrated Victorian anatomist Richard Owen tried to get the... | |
 | James P. Hogan - 2004 - 272 pages
...all directions to an unlimited degree. In the first edition of Origin (later removed) he said, "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...natural selection, more and more aquatic in their habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." But,... | |
 | Esa Itkonen - 2005 - 272 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. (Darwin (1998 [1859]: 141-142) It must also be... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - 2006 - 23 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.34 Echoing in Darwin's prose, unfortunately for him, is an exchange between Hamlet and Polonius... | |
 | Peter Dear - 2008 - 256 pages
...insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.15 When Richard Owen wrote a review of the Origin in The Edinburgh Review, he singled out this... | |
 | Bernd Brunner - 2007 - 269 pages
...remained constant, and no other animals were better suited to skimming them, Darwin argued, "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered,...creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." The father of evolution is said to have later bitterly regretted this flight of fancy. But is the idea... | |
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