 Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit. to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with...  The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 348by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
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 | Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd - Science - 2006 - 330 pages
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