The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life |
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... animals and plants - Nature of the checks to increase - Com- petition universal - Effects of Climate - Protection from the number of individuals - Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature - Struggle for life most ...
... animals and plants - Nature of the checks to increase - Com- petition universal - Effects of Climate - Protection from the number of individuals - Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature - Struggle for life most ...
Page xvi
... animals tend to vary in some degree , and , secondly , that agri- culturists improve their domesticated animals by selec- tion ; and then , he adds , but what is done in this latter case " by art , seems to be done with equal efficacy ...
... animals tend to vary in some degree , and , secondly , that agri- culturists improve their domesticated animals by selec- tion ; and then , he adds , but what is done in this latter case " by art , seems to be done with equal efficacy ...
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... animal , and few things more difficult than to get it to breed freely under confine- ment , even when the male and female unite . How many animals there are which will not breed , though kept in an almost free state in their native coun ...
... animal , and few things more difficult than to get it to breed freely under confine- ment , even when the male and female unite . How many animals there are which will not breed , though kept in an almost free state in their native coun ...
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... animals under confinement , I may mention that carnivorous ani- mals , even from the tropics , breed in this country pretty freely under confinement , with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family , which seldom produce young ...
... animals under confinement , I may mention that carnivorous ani- mals , even from the tropics , breed in this country pretty freely under confinement , with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family , which seldom produce young ...
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... animals can be named which has not in some country drooping ears ; and the view which has been suggested that the drooping is due to disuse of the muscles of the ear , from the animals being seldom much alarmed , seems probable . Many ...
... animals can be named which has not in some country drooping ears ; and the view which has been suggested that the drooping is due to disuse of the muscles of the ear , from the animals being seldom much alarmed , seems probable . Many ...
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