| American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a. small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation,...Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to raun's power of selection. Wo have seen that man by selection can certainly produce great results,... | |
| 1860 - 860 pages
...word 'selection,' as applied by him to nature, is entirely figurative. ' We have seen,' he observes, 'that man by selection can certainly produce great results, and can adapt organized beings to his own uses through the accumulation of slight but useful variations.' He proceeds... | |
| Methodist Church - 1863 - 718 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation,...to mark its relation to man's power of selection. It matters not how complex the organs may be, however striking the contrivances, natural selection... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...selected.' Now that this is the real meaning of this mystery, Mr Darwin frankly acknowledges : ' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (64). This important... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...selected.' Now that this is the real meaning of this mystery, Mr Darwin frankly acknowledges : ' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (64). This important... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (G4). This important passage reveals to us the motive which prompted Mr Darwin to invent the term,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1887 - 676 pages
...to \^ preservation oi tliat individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. ... I have called this principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection." And who will not recognize... | |
| Charles Hodge - History - 1874 - 190 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive.; I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Katural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often... | |
| Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often... | |
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