If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. The American Naturalist - Page 1561909Full view - About this book
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...Agassiz, Pictet, and Sedgwick — as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera...the theory of evolution through natural selection. For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are descended from some one progenitor,... | |
| Biology - 1909 - 784 pages
...fluctuating variations, as that term will be understood at the beginning of the twentieth century, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. . . . Complex organs . . . have been perfected ... by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations.... | |
| Nederlandsch natuur- en geneeskundig congres - Medicine - 1913 - 662 pages
...volgenden zin, in welke hij aangeeft, waardoor zijne opvattingswij ze omvergestooten zou kunnen worden : „If numerous species belonging to the same genera...the theory of evolution throu.gh natural selection. For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are descended fróm some one progenitor... | |
| 1913 - 570 pages
...demjenigen Satze ') hervor, in welchem er sagt, wodurch seine Auffassungsweise gestürzt werden könnte: „If numerous species belonging to the same genera...the theory of evolution through natural selection. For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are descended from some one progenitor... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...by several palaeontologists ... as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of Species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...by several palaeontologists ... as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of Species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural... | |
| Edinburgh Geological Society - Geology - 1893 - 404 pages
...transitional forms. 3rd. On the sudden appearance of whole groups of allied species. — Darwin admits that if numerous species belonging to the same genera or families have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural... | |
| Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...forcibly than by Professor Sedgwick, as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural... | |
| Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Gregory Radick - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 504 pages
...In the last edition, the first part of this sentence does not change. But the second part becomes: 'the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection'.12 This change makes perfectly clear that Darwin admitted the word 'evolution', provided... | |
| Robert Thomas Fertig - Philosophy - 2007 - 322 pages
..."If numerous species, belonging to the same. . .families, have really started into life at once, that fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection." That's exactly what happened during the Cambrian explosion, about 530-540 million years ago. Entirely... | |
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