 | Esa Itkonen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 272 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,...more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. (Darwin (1998 [1859]: 141-142) It must also be... | |
 | Peter Dear - Science - 2008 - 256 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 a whale.15 When Richard Owen wrote a review of the Origin in The Edinburgh Review, he singled out this... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 23 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 a whale.34 Echoing in Darwin's prose, unfortunately for him, is an exchange between Hamlet and Polonius... | |
 | Bernd Brunner - Nature - 2007 - 269 pages
...constant, and no other animals were better suited to skimming them, Darwin argued, "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." The father of evolution is said to have later bitterly regretted this flight of fancy. But is the idea... | |
 | D. Graham Burnett - History - 2010 - 299 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,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard... | |
 | David Rains Wallace - Science - 2007 - 313 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,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. Attempting to counter one of Owen's anti-evolution arguments, he'd also cited a supposed Mesozoic whale... | |
 | David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...were constant, and if better competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. 37 Darwin had been of course dismissive of Chambers's embryological theory of transformism in his reading... | |
 | Dr. Carl Werner, Carl Werner - Religion - 2007 - 288 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,...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. " u — Charles Darwin Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Darwin's suggestion that bears could have evolved into... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - Science - 2007 - 684 pages
...exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger...till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. Why did Darwin become so chagrined about this passage? His hypothetical tale may be pure speculation... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 2008 - 29 pages
...like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, . . . , I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection,...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.' (Origin, p. 184). 8 Anthony Trollope referred to The Times as the 'Dailyjupiter', in The Warden (1855)... | |
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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. 
