On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
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... manner are highly variable : specific characters more variable than generic secondary sexual characters variable - Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner - Reversions to long - lost characters - Summary . 157-198 ...
... manner are highly variable : specific characters more variable than generic secondary sexual characters variable - Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner - Reversions to long - lost characters - Summary . 157-198 ...
Page xiv
... manner in which similar views arise at about the same time , that Goethe in Germany , Dr. Darwin in England , and Geoffroy Saint Hilaire ( as we shall immediately see ) in France , came to the same conclusion on the origin of species ...
... manner in which similar views arise at about the same time , that Goethe in Germany , Dr. Darwin in England , and Geoffroy Saint Hilaire ( as we shall immediately see ) in France , came to the same conclusion on the origin of species ...
Page xix
... manner as varieties are under cultivation ; and the latter process he attributes to man's power of selection . But he does not show how selection acts under nature . He believes , like Dean Herbert , that species , when nascent , were ...
... manner as varieties are under cultivation ; and the latter process he attributes to man's power of selection . But he does not show how selection acts under nature . He believes , like Dean Herbert , that species , when nascent , were ...
Page xx
... manner by the Rev. Baden Powell , in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds , ' 1855. Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is " a regular , not a casual phenomenon , " or , as ...
... manner by the Rev. Baden Powell , in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds , ' 1855. Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is " a regular , not a casual phenomenon , " or , as ...
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... existence , it follows that any being , if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself , under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life , will have a better chance of surviving , and thus be 4 INTRODUCTION .
... existence , it follows that any being , if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself , under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life , will have a better chance of surviving , and thus be 4 INTRODUCTION .
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