 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 pages
...of life. Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends 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... | |
 | Paul Ree - 2003 - 246 pages
...concerns the relative importance of group and individual selection. Darwin writes of the latter: "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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 456 pages
...accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Can we wonder, then, that Nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions...be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations ; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - 354 pages
...difficult but fundamental topic that we turn next. PART III PROGRESS Darwin on Evolutionary Progress 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... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 2005 - 316 pages
...accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions;...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? (Darwin, 1964: 83-84) This is not all. After this passage, Darwin continued for nearly a full page... | |
 | Marla Cone - 2007 - 270 pages
...accumulated by Nature during whole geological periods! Can we wonder, then, that Nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions;...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? — Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter IV: Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest,... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 pages
...be preserved into successive generations precisely because it is not competitive. In Darwin's words, It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - 2006 - 360 pages
...accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions;...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? (Darwin, 1967, p. 84.) By using the activity of humans as the ground of an analogy with nature, Darwin,... | |
 | Edward O. Wilson - 2006 - 190 pages
...Origin of Species the master naturalist encapsulated the idea in one rolling Victorian sentence: 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... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2006 - 224 pages
...generations, gradually leads varieties of species to develop into new species. Darwin explained: 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... | |
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Nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? 
