| Zoology - 1890 - 414 pages
...individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ? " (' Origin of Species,' chap. iv). Of late years, another view has received support from various... | |
| 1860 - 532 pages
...individuals are born than can possibly survive), that individuals having advantages however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving...rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations I call natural selection. Variations neither useful... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving, and of propagating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that...rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations, and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. Variations neither... | |
| William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...individuals are born than can possibly survive, that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others would have the best chance of surviving...procreating their kind ? On the other hand, we may be sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. 22 This preservation... | |
| Geology - 1860 - 390 pages
...sake of brevity, NATURAL SELECTION." At the beginning of the same chapter, he has added to this, " On the other hand, we • may feel sure that any variation...least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed; " and he includes " sexual selections '*• as a powerful assistant. The theory is then based upon... | |
| 1860 - 982 pages
...If such do occur, then, remembering the struggle for existence, individuals possessing any advantage over others would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind, while injurious variations would be rigidly destroyed. Such a continual preservation of favorable,... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving, and of propagating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variatiou in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving...rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection. Variations neither... | |
| 1861 - 824 pages
...individuals having any advantage, however slight over others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variations in the least degree injurious, would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable... | |
| John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...If such do occur, then, remembering the struggle for existence, individuals possessing any advantage over others would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind, while injurious variations would be rigidly destroyed. It is illustrated, amplified, and confirmed... | |
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