This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is lessened, or, as I believe, disappears, when it is remembered that selection may be applied to the family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Thus, a well-flavoured vegetable... On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ... - Page 212by Charles Darwin - 1861 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...hereditary transmissions ? We cannot reply ; we can only quote, with no less amazement, our author : โ ' This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is...individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Thus, a well-flavoured vegetable is cooked, and the individual is destroyed ; but the horticulturist sows seed.... | |
| American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...hereditary transmissions ? We cannot reply ; we can only quote, with no less amazement, our author : โ " This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is...it is remembered that selection may be applied to tho family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Thus, a well flavored... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...selection. But I must pass over this preliminary difficulty. The great difficulty lies in the working ants differing widely from both the males and the fertile...family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gam the desired end. Thus, a well-flavored vegetable is cooked, and the individual is destroyed ; but... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...with the working ant we have an insect differing greatly from its parents, yet absolutely sterile; BO that it could never have transmitted successively...individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Thus, breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together ; the animal has been slaughtered,... | |
| Biology - 1909 - 846 pages
...hive-bee? The answer to this query, by the way, begins with a sentence which has a very modern sound: This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is...the individual, and may thus gain the desired end (pp. 229-230). The following utterance should be read with Darwin's main thesis in mind : If numerous... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...bulls and cows of these same breeds. Hence I can see no great difficulty in any character becoming correlated with the sterile condition of certain members...the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together : an animal thus characterised... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 492 pages
...sterile condition of certain members of insect-commumties : the difficulty lies in understanding bow such correlated modifications of structure could have...the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together : an animal thus characterised... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1888 - 406 pages
...have been slowly accumulated by natural selection. This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, ยป lessened, or, as I believe, disappears, when it is...the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together: an animal thus characterised... | |
| Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1891 - 544 pages
...does Mr. Darwin meet this difficulty ? " It is lessened, or, as I believe, disappears," he says,* " when it is remembered that selection may be applied to the family are fertile sources of septieiomia and pyaomia โ the pestilence and scoim:e so much dreaded by operative... | |
| Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...bulls and cows of these same breeds. Hence I can see no great difficulty in any character becoming correlated with the sterile condition of certain members...the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together: an animal thus characterised... | |
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