The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeWith his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 1850s, it is a rigorously documented but highly readable account of the scientific theory that now lies at the root of our present attitude to the universe. Challenging notions such as the fixity of species with the idea of natural selection, and setting forth the results of pioneering work on the ecology of animals and plants, it made a lasting contribution to philosophical and scientific thought. |
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... itis essentially aboutthese things – which wasto a considerable extent lostinthe ensuing yearsasbiology became more professional and retreated into the laboratory, andwhich is being rediscovered in this century with the rising interest ...
... itis essentially aboutthese things – which wasto a considerable extent lostinthe ensuing yearsasbiology became more professional and retreated into the laboratory, andwhich is being rediscovered in this century with the rising interest ...
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... Itis becauseDarwin, in orderto underminethe doctrine ofspecial creation, had to provide another answer, that The Origin reads in places like an answer to Paley. Meanwhile, inthefirst halfofthe century,Paley's answer was embroidered and ...
... Itis becauseDarwin, in orderto underminethe doctrine ofspecial creation, had to provide another answer, that The Origin reads in places like an answer to Paley. Meanwhile, inthefirst halfofthe century,Paley's answer was embroidered and ...
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... Itis significant, however, that one ofthefew ingredients of Darwin's formal education which he enjoyed and profited from was Paley's Natural Theology, which was part of the prescribed course ofstudy for the Cambridge Tripos. (It ...
... Itis significant, however, that one ofthefew ingredients of Darwin's formal education which he enjoyed and profited from was Paley's Natural Theology, which was part of the prescribed course ofstudy for the Cambridge Tripos. (It ...
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... (itis likeconfessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck's nonsenseof a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations fromthe slowwilling of animals', etc.! Butthe conclusions Iam led to are not widely different fromhis,though ...
... (itis likeconfessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck's nonsenseof a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations fromthe slowwilling of animals', etc.! Butthe conclusions Iam led to are not widely different fromhis,though ...
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... Itis atthis point that Darwin introduces the subsidiary concept of sexual selection, the consequence of the struggle between males for the possession offemales. This concept introduced a number ofdifficulties whichDarwin did not ...
... Itis atthis point that Darwin introduces the subsidiary concept of sexual selection, the consequence of the struggle between males for the possession offemales. This concept introduced a number ofdifficulties whichDarwin did not ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | |
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ranging muchdiffused andcommon speciesvary most Species | |
CHAPTER FOUR | |
DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY | |
INSTINCT | |
making instinct Difficulties on the theory of the Natural | |
appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differencesin physical conditions Importance of barriers Affinityof the productions ofthe same contin... | |
Distribution of freshwater productions On the inhabitants | |
Difficulties onthe theoryof | |
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