...advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of propagating their kind. On the other hand we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious [such as a toothless upper jaw in a calf occurring in a species with full sets of incisors] would be...

...death, — by the survival of the fittest, and by the destruction of the less well-fitted individuals." "Individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of propagating their kind. On the other hand we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious...

...(remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive), that individuals having an advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?" Now, this is honest, frank, and ingenuous. He does not here, — as he does...

...variations useful in some way to each being in the great battle of life do probably sometimes occur, says : "On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation...injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, T call natural selection. Variations...

...over others would have the but cliance of surviving and procreating their kind I On the other V-,in J, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be inevitably destroyed. This preservation of favourable and this destruction of injurious variations...

...that many more individuals are born tlian can possibly survive) that individuals having anyadvantage, however slight, over others would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree...

...species has generally some effect upon the chance . of life. " Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive)...chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ? " (' Origin of Species,' chap. iv). Of late years, another view has received support from various...

...venture to think that this statement represents what the theory of Natural Selection requires. For if we feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed ; and if the growth of a mere relic be injurious, in that it consumes some of the nourishment which...

...in the course of many successive generations? If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive)...others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?" " This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and...

...In the course of thousands of generations? If such do occur, can we doubt — remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive...surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other band, we may feel sure that any variation In the least degree Injurious would be rigidly destroyed....