 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
 | David Rains Wallace - 2007 - 313 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. Attempting to counter one of Owen's anti-evolution arguments, he'd also cited a supposed Mesozoic whale... | |
 | D. Graham Burnett - 2010 - 299 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,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard... | |
 | David Amigoni - 2007 - 12 pages
...supply of insects were constant, and if better 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. 37 Darwin had been of course dismissive of Chambers's embryological theory of transformism in his reading... | |
 | Dr. Carl Werner, Carl Werner - 2007 - 288 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. " u — Charles Darwin Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Darwin's suggestion that bears could have evolved into... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 2007 - 684 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, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 29 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 'Dailyjupiter', in The Warden (1855)... | |
 | 1869 - 946 pages
...see no difficulty in a race of bears * Ib., p. 464. f CCXOTIII", ii, p. 461. $ CCXin", p. 184, Ed. 1. being rendered by Natural Selection, more and more...addition to Lamarck's ' influence des circonstances sur les actions et les habitudes des animaux et de celle des actions et des habitudes de ces corps vivans,... | |
 | New York Academy of Sciences - 1909 - 532 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.1 The omission of this illustration was urged by Lyell not so much because he thought it too... | |
 | Hârun Yahya - 2001 - 277 pages
...notion of "unlimited variation" is best seen in the following sentence from The Origin of Species: 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.152 The... | |
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