On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life |
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Page vii
... 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 -- .. - Page 165 ...
... 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 -- .. - Page 165 ...
Page xv
... manner as to the other parts in which there appears to exist an adaptation to an end . Wheresoever , therefore , all things together ( that is all the parts of one whole ) happened like as if they were made for the sake of something ...
... manner as to the other parts in which there appears to exist an adaptation to an end . Wheresoever , therefore , all things together ( that is all the parts of one whole ) happened like as if they were made for the sake of something ...
Page xvi
... 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 xxi
... 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 xxii
... 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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