...comparatively few. And this Mr Darwin, with his usual fairness, frankly admits. " It may be asked," says he, " how is it that varieties which I have called incipient...which in most cases obviously differ from each other more than do the varieties of the same species ;" and he sets himself to account for this, but does...

...plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of the beetle which dives through the water;...adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world.(73) Laudatory adjectives are a common feature in Darwin's writing. When he read a passage to...

...humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of a beetle which dives through the water; in the plumed...adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world.28 Here Darwin speaks the very language of natural theology; he does so right down to the level...

...humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of a beetle which dives through the water; in the plumed...everywhere and in every part of the organic world. (51) Darwin emphasizes that this principle of co-adaptation operates "everywhere" in every thing; in...

...assistance in preparing the book's figures. NOU S'MOULp STÉ.P I The Need for Selection Puzzles of Fit We see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world. — Charles Darwin' Are you awed by the exquisite fit between organism and environment, and find in...

...plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird. . . . We see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world." Fourth, Darwin presented embryology in support of his theory. Darwin claimed that each stage of the...

...plainly in the humble parasite that clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of the beetle which dives through the water;...everywhere and in every part of the organic world.... There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed into...

...adaptation, must generally gain the victory in their contests" (Darwin and Wallace 1859, p. 50) and "[w]e see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world" (Darwin 1859, p. 48). To adapt, therefore, is to become or to be fitted to an environment. 12.3 THE...

...plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird; in the structure of the beetle which dives through the water;...obviously differ from each other far more than do the 39 varieties of the same species? How do those groups of species, which constitute what are called...

...introducing his ideas of natural selection, Darwin speaks lyrically of 'exquisite adaptations': 'in the structure of the beetle which dives through the water;...everywhere and in every part of the organic world.' Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, ed. Gillian Beer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 51....