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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. "
The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 113
by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pages
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Evolution: the Grand Experiment: The Quest for an Answer

Dr. Carl Werner, Carl Werner - Religion - 2007 - 288 pages
...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...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...
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the ...

D. Graham Burnett - History - 2010 - 299 pages
...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...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...
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Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

David Rains Wallace - Science - 2007 - 313 pages
...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...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...
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Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth ...

David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...better 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...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...
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Bears: A Brief History

Bernd Brunner - Nature - 2007 - 269 pages
...animals were better suited to skimming them, Darwin argued, "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more...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...
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

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...
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Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859. Anniversary Edition.

Charles Darwin - Science - 2008 - 29 pages
...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, more and more...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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The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volumes 97-98

Science - 1869 - 946 pages
...see no difficulty in a race of bears * Ib., p. 464. f CCXOTIII", ii, p. 461. $ CCXin", p. 184, Ed. 1. being rendered by Natural Selection, more and more...a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.'* The idea which Mr. Darwin persuades himself that he originated in addition to Lamarck's ' influence...
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 19

New York Academy of Sciences - Science - 1909 - 532 pages
...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...mouths , till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.1 The omission of this illustration was urged by Lyell not so much because he thought it too...
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The Evolution Deceit: The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism and Its ...

Hârun Yahya - 2001 - 277 pages
...difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.152 The reason Darwin cited such a far-fetched example was the primitive understanding of science...
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