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" I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. "
The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 113
by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pages
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111

English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.'* If the ursine species had not been restricted to northern latitudes, we might have surmised this to...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. — P. 165. 'We should like to know how much credulity is necessary to enable one to adopt such stories...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 67

1864 - 822 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale ! "* Now, if this is not the Lamarckian theory of development, it is surely closely akin to it. " The...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 11

Geology - 1860 - 390 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." (P. 184.) Before entering upon this, however, we must explain what " Natural Selection " means. We...
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The North British review

1860 - 580 pages
...better adapted competitors did not exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." — P. 184. Such credulity will find no difficulties. Could we only get up, or rather down, to the...
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The North British Review, Volume 32

English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...better adapted competitors did not exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as^ji_\yhale." —P. 184. Such credulity will find no difficulties. Could we only get up, or rather...
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The North British Review, Volumes 32-33

1860 - 656 pages
...difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in iheir structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." — P. 184. Such credulity will find no difficulties. Could we only get up, or rather down, to the...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 35

India - 1860 - 600 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist iu the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure ind habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as1 monstrous as a whale."...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 13; Volume 21; Volume 43

Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty iu a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. — P. 165. We should like to know how much credulity is necessary to enable one to adopt such stories...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. As we sometimes see individuals of a species following habits widely different from those both of their...
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