 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...origin of species. Competition, Competition . . . When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...to me to throw some light on the origin of species ..." Prelude Belief in the Deluge encouraged a belief in the fixity of species. Ante-diluvian creatures... | |
 | James W. Valentine - Science - 2004 - 639 pages
...first sentence of Darwin's Origin of Species: "When on board HMS 'Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." Given a monkey with a thirty-key typewriter, randomly striking a key per second, it would on average... | |
 | David Rains Wallace - Science - 2004 - 374 pages
...Owen wrote a spiteful review of The Origin of Species, singling out for ridicule its assertion that "certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants...relations of the present to the past inhabitants" might "throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries." He scoffed that "what... | |
 | Laurie Ann Callihan - Biology - 2004 - 294 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of tho organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Bruce V. Foltz, Robert Frodeman - Nature - 2004 - 368 pages
...his main conclusions after a long journey of thirty years, which began when he embarked on HMS Beagle "to throw some light on the origin of species— that mystery of mysteries."6 In the very dynamic of his argument in favor of modification through variation and natural... | |
 | Civilization - 2004 - 494 pages
...Darwin's Origin of Species (1859: 1) begins: 'When on board HMS "Beagle", as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the...present to the past inhabitants of that continent. . . .' Darwin certainly used the many facts he recorded during his five years on the Beagle in supporting... | |
 | John Henry Morgan - Ethics - 2005 - 265 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the orign of species... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - History - 2006 - 47 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - Debates and debating - 2006 - 360 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of...present to the past inhabitants of that continent." Each subsequent sentence in the opening paragraph stresses facts and observation and minimizes theory.... | |
 | Sean B. Carroll - Science - 2006 - 326 pages
...naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of the continent. These facts . . . seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery... | |
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Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. 
