Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under... The Philosophy of Evolution - Page 33by Benjamin Thompson Lowne - 1873 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
| Biology - 1909 - 846 pages
...selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection even induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." Nevertheless, almost side by side with this explanation we find in the last edition of "the... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1873 - 492 pages
...Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such/ variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its coiw ditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of tba potent effects of man's selection;... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection ; and in this... | |
| Bible - 1876 - 898 pages
...selection.' Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life The variability which we almost universally meet with in our domestic productions is not directly... | |
| Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...briefly, " sense of need." " Whereas," continues Mr. Darwin, " it " (natural selection) " implies only the preservation of such variations as arise, and...are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection." Of course... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1877 - 546 pages
...selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." ' ' This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations and the destruction... | |
| George Frederick Wright - Bible and science - 1882 - 418 pages
...selection.' Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life The variability which we almost universally meet with in our domestic productions is not directly... | |
| John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 834 pages
...seiettioH. Some have even imagined that natural *t Itction induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions in life. Darwin. Selective (sS-lek'tiv), a. Selecting; tending to select. 'Selective providence of... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...!''<oc ''• have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection ; and in this... | |
| E. Edmond - First philosophy - 1887 - 274 pages
...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable... | |
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