On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeThis is the 'second edition' of Darwin's Origin of Species. |
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Page 51
When, moreover, he comes to study allied forms brought from countries not now
continuous, in which case he can hardly hope to find the intermediate links
between his doubtful forms, he will have to trust almost entirely to analogy, and
his ...
When, moreover, he comes to study allied forms brought from countries not now
continuous, in which case he can hardly hope to find the intermediate links
between his doubtful forms, he will have to trust almost entirely to analogy, and
his ...
Page 103
this case the effects of intercrossing can hardly be counterbalanced by natural
selection always tending to modify all the individuals in each district in exactly the
same manner to the conditions of each; for in a continuous area, the physical ...
this case the effects of intercrossing can hardly be counterbalanced by natural
selection always tending to modify all the individuals in each district in exactly the
same manner to the conditions of each; for in a continuous area, the physical ...
Page 106
Each new form, also, as soon as it has been much improved, will be able to
spread over the open and continuous area, and will thus come into competition
with many others. Hence more new places will be formed, and the competition to
fill ...
Each new form, also, as soon as it has been much improved, will be able to
spread over the open and continuous area, and will thus come into competition
with many others. Hence more new places will be formed, and the competition to
fill ...
Page 174
In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is
now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. Geology would
lead us to believe that almost every continent has been broken up into islands ...
In the first place we should be extremely cautious in inferring, because an area is
now continuous, that it has been continuous during a long period. Geology would
lead us to believe that almost every continent has been broken up into islands ...
Page 175
If I am right in believing that allied or representative species, when inhabiting a
continuous area, are generally so distributed that each has a wide range, with a
comparatively narrow neutral territory between them, in which they become
rather ...
If I am right in believing that allied or representative species, when inhabiting a
continuous area, are generally so distributed that each has a wide range, with a
comparatively narrow neutral territory between them, in which they become
rather ...
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| Title | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
| Author | Charles Darwin |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1860 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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