...Darwin (and Others) on Biological Perfection Slow though the process of selection may be ... I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection. (Darwin 1859, p. 109) Introduction It would be difficult to find a more optimistic expression of the...

...can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic...with their physical conditions of life, which may have been affected in the long course of time through nature's power of selection, that is, by the...

...do that much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic...with their physical conditions of life, which may have occurred in the long course of time through nature's power of selection, that is by the survival...

...allows himself an oblique positive reference or two while also praising the workmanship of nature and the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings. But from an ancient perspective it is what Darwin's ideas challenged, more than the components of the...

...of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of 80 artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and...long course of time by nature's power of selection. Extinction This subject will be more fully discussed in our chapter on Geology; but it must be here...