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" If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the... "
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ... - Page 61
by Charles Darwin - 1882 - 458 pages
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Plant Variation and Evolution

David Briggs, Stuart Max Walters - 1997 - 538 pages
...were carried out. Darwin had written in the Origin (Chapter 4): 'Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive)...chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In 1 895 Weldon wrote: The questions raised by the Darwinian hypothesis are purely statistical, and...
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The Ascent of Science

Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 pages
...occur 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)...injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. It is essential...
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Die Architektur der Synthese: Entstehung und Philosophie der modernen ...

Marcel Weber - 1998 - 352 pages
...of generations? If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born that can possibly survive) that individuals having any...kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variations in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. The preservation of favourable...
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Lifting the Scientific Veil: Science Appreciation for the Nonscientist

Paul Sukys - 1999 - 614 pages
...states it much more succinctly when he writes: If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive)...rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. Variations neither...
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The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw

Michael Ruse - 1999 - 366 pages
...occur 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)...other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the lest degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the...
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Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus

David R. Harper, Andrea S. Meyer - 1999 - 278 pages
...whilst the great Ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me ISAA NEWTON . . . can we doubt. . . that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of rocreating their kind ? HARLES DARWIN, The Origin ofS ecies, 1859 THE BASICS OF LIFE To understand...
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The Motet in the Age of Du Fay

Julie E. Cumming - 2003 - 440 pages
...given the "Struggle for Existence among all organic beings,"41 "individuals having any advantage . . . over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind," and "variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed."42 The organisms which are...
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Herbert Spencer: Critical Assessments, Volume 2

John Offer - 2000 - 696 pages
...occur 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)...injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection."49 Darwin...
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Idealization X: The Richness of Idealization, Volume 10

Izabella Nowakowa, Leszek Nowak - 2000 - 546 pages
...individuals having any advantage. however slighL over others. would have the hest chance of suxviving and of procreating their kind'' On the other hand....any variation in the least degree injurious would he rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations. and the...
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The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

Michael Ruse - 2001 - 362 pages
...occur 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)...rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, (pp. 80-81) As a substitute...
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