 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...preys on various animals, secnring some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness, and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had from any change in the country decreased in numbers during that season of the year when the wolf is hardest prrssed for food. I can... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...when the wolf is hardest pressed for food. Under such circumstances, there is no reason to doubt that the swiftest and slimmest wolves would have the best chance of surviving, and so be preserved or selected—provided always that they retained strength to master their prey at this or some other period... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness ; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance,...numbers, during that season of the year when the wolf is hardest pressed for food. I can under such circumstances see no reason to doubt that the swiftest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness ; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance,...numbers, during that season of the year when the wolf is hardest pressed for food. I can under such circumstances see no reason to doubt that the swiftest... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...strength, and some by fleetness ; and let us sitppuse that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had by any change in the country increased in numbers, or...numbers during that season of the year when the wolf is hardest pressed for food, under such circumstances the swiftest and slimmest wolves would have the... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness ; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer, for instance, had from any change in the country increased in number, or that other prey had decreased in number, during that season of the year when the wolf is... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...it were a strict grammatical synonyme with selection, and vice versa, we see in this passage : *, ' Under such circumstances, the swiftest and slimmest...chance of surviving, and so be preserved or selected ' (95). speech that he believes it can accomplish anything, even the most complicated, ingenious, and... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...if it were a strict grammatical synonyme with selection, and vice versa, we see in this passage : ' Under such circumstances, the swiftest and slimmest...chance of surviving, and so be preserved or selected ' (95). speech that he believes it can accomplish anything, even the most complicated, ingenious, and... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...it were a strict grammatical synoiiyme with selection, and vice versa, we see in this passage : I ' Under such circumstances, the swiftest and slimmest...wolves would have the best chance of surviving, and so bo preserved or selected ' (95). speech that he believes it can accomplish anything, even the most... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1870 - 468 pages
...various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness ; and let us Bnppoeo that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had from...change in the country increased in numbers, or that ether prey had decreased in numbers, during that season of the year when the wolf is hardest pressed... | |
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Let us take the case of a wolf, which preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had from any change in the country increased in numbers, or... 
