 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 pages
...conclude that the natives might have been modified with advantage, so as to have better resisted the intruders. As man can produce, and certainly has produced,...and visible characters : Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Elizabeth Grosz - 2004 - 330 pages
...usefulness, that is, the functional benefit, of phenotypic variations in all organs and functions: "Man can act only on external and visible characters: Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Carol Reeves - 2005 - 148 pages
...than smaller. So this example illustrates definition as a mode of thought as well as rhetoric. Text 30 As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a...and visible characters: Nature, if I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 2005 - 316 pages
...artificial selection: "Time and again Darwin compares Nature as an agent to 'Man' as an agent; for example: 'As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect?'" (Sterrett, 2002: 158). But then she neglects to explain the rest of the passage, where... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 pages
...of "natural selection" by a lengthy series of contrasts between the breeder and nature. Darwin asks "As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect?"; and answers: "Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing... | |
 | Nathaniel C. Comfort - 2007 - 196 pages
...the hands of man, apply in nature?! think we shall see that it can act most effectually." And also: "As man can produce and certainly has produced a great...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect?" He goes on (this is my favorite passage): It may be said that natural selection is... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 pages
...land. And as foreigners have thus everywhere beaten some of the natives, we may safely conclude 42 that the natives might have been modified with advantage,...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect? Man can act only on external and visible characters: nature cares nothing for appearances,... | |
 | 1860 - 562 pages
...following sentence, taken at random from the present volume, will certainly go far to corroborate : " As man can produce, and certainly has produced, a...methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not nature effect ? Man can act only on external and visible characters : nature cares nothing for appearances,... | |
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... useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own... 
