 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...food swim with its mouth open devouring molluscs he is not quite prepared to admit that bears may be rendered "by natural selection more and more aquatic...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale !" From the London Be т I e w. THE WOMEN OF INDIA AND CEYLON.* To the sympathies of English people... | |
 | 1861 - 522 pages
...food swim with its mouth open devouring molluscs, he is not quite prepared to admit that bears may be rendered " by natural selection more and more aquatic...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale !" RTFLED ORDNANCE. SINCE 1815 the infantry troops, armed with the smooth-bore musket, had gradually... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competition did not already exist in the country, I can $e? no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature WOK produced aa monstrous a* a whale."— P. 165. Man has, of course, on Mr. Darwin's theory, been... | |
 | 1862 - 436 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competition did not already exist in the country, / can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." — (P. 165.) Man has, of course, on Mr Darwin's theory, been the subject of these modifications in... | |
 | Henry A. DuBois - Human beings - 1866 - 112 pages
...supposed motive, is, that black bears may become the progenitors of a whale-like progeny. He says : — habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." — p. 165. Mr. Darwin's own inability to see any difficulty in nature which, his Natural Selection... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - Natural theology - 1867 - 332 pages
...constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection...mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as the whale." We have in this extract a good illustration of the changes in structure which it is claimed... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...first edition had an additional sentence now suppressed : ' I see no difficulty in a race of bears ^ing rendered by Natural Selection, more and more aquatic...with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was pioduced as monstrous us a whale.' In truth the passage without this conclusion is incomplete ; for... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. J see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection...more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, Math larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.'* This appeared... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. / see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection more and more aquatic iu their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous... | |
 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1868 - 1046 pages
...with widely open mouth, thus catching, almost like a whale, insects in the water.3 I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.' 3 The idea which Mr. Darwin persuades himself that he originated in addition to Lamarck's ' influence... | |
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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. 
