| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 586 pages
...each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurrent struggle for existence, it follows that any being,...to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conI ditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be I naturally selected. From... | |
| Douglas Dewar, Frank Finn - Evolution - 1909 - 452 pages
...more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive ; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...being, if it vary, however slightly, in any manner proStable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better... | |
| Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - Jews - 1912 - 156 pages
...in the natural world. It was apparently made clear by Darwin, and supported by sufficient evidence, that " any being, if it vary however slightly, in...manner profitable to itself, under the complex and somewhat varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally... | |
| Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...each species are born," says Darwin,2 "than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner 1 Evolution and Ethics, pp. 53-54. < Tht Orifin nf Sprites, VoL I., p. 5, Progress and Politics Pt.... | |
| William Marion Goldsmith - Evolution - 1924 - 156 pages
...existence (2, struggle for existence) it follows that any being, if it vary (3, individual variation) however slightly in any manner profitable to itself,...the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life (4, environmental condition) will have a better chance of surviving, (5, survival of the fittest) and... | |
| George Herbert Carpenter - Entomology - 1928 - 534 pages
...and will generally be inherited by the offspring." A creature which inherits favourable variations " will have a better chance of surviving and thus be naturally selected." The theory of natural selection is not difficult to understand, and the process is certainly going... | |
| Science - 1922 - 378 pages
...more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive ; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. The preservation of favourable varieties, and the rejection of injurious varieties, I call Natural... | |
| Richard Lowry - Psychology - 1971 - 258 pages
...more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...principle of inheritance, any selected variety will [then] tend to propagate its new and modified form. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (1859) These... | |
| Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...each species are born than can possibly survive," he had asserted, "and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...a better chance of surviving and thus be naturally selected"2* Social theorists in search of an authoritative foundation for their ideas thought they... | |
| Jack E. Staub - Science - 1994 - 390 pages
...more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive, and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows...manner profitable to itself, under the complex and somewhat varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally... | |
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