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" One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated races is that we see in them adaptation, not indeed to the animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use or fancy. "
The American Naturalist - Page 79
1909
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...the differences of a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...botanists, for instance, believe that the fuller's teazle, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...the differences of a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...botanists, for instance, believe that the fuller's teazle, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...the differences of a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...believe that the fuller's teasel, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus ; and this...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...differences between a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...not indeed to the animal's or plant's own good, but tcr man's "use or fancy. Some variations useful to him have probably arisen"suddenly, or by one step;...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...differences between a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...believe that the fuller's teasel, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus ; and this...
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The refutation of Darwinism; and the converse theory of development; based ...

T Warren O'Neill - Evolution - 1880 - 482 pages
...extreme degree, in some one part, * * when compared with one another." (Page 31, Origin of Species): "One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use or fancy." (Page 33, Origin of Species): Darwin quotes Youatt, approvingly, as saying, that man, by Selection,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 494 pages
...differences between a dray and race horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated races is that wo see in them adaptation, not indeed to the animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use or fancy....
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The relations of mind and brain

Henry Calderwood - 1884 - 572 pages
...Man," and "Unconscious Selection" (Origin of Species, 6th ed. pp. 22-29). As he has clearly stated, "one of the most remarkable features in our domesticated races is that we see in them adaptation, not to the animal's or plant's own good, but to man's use, or fancy " (p. 22). And again, " Man selects...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...differences between a dray- and racehorse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...believe that the fuller's teasel, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus ; and this...
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Charles Darwin's Works: The origin of species by means of natural selection ...

Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...differences between a dray- and racehorse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. One of the most remarkable features in our domesticated...believe that the fuller's teasel, with its hooks, which cannot be rivalled by any mechanical contrivance, is only a variety of the wild Dipsacus ; and this...
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