| Charles Darwin - Science - 1998 - 486 pages
...individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequendy, there is a frequendy recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slighdy in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life,... | |
| James Reeve Pusey - Literary Collections - 1998 - 282 pages
...make the fit fit. It works no change on any being. Darwin wrote, in the introduction to The Origin that "any being, if it vary however slightly in any...better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected."106 But no being does vary genetically, even slightly, in its lifetime. No being adapts itself... | |
| Granville C. Henry - Religion - 1998 - 260 pages
...As ... more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, ... there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary . . . slightly in any manner profitable to itself, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus... | |
| Nicholas S. Thompson, François Tonneau - Science - 2001 - 346 pages
...each species are born than can possibly survive: and as. consequently. there is a frequently occurring Struggle for Existence. it follows that any being....chance of surviving. and thus be naturally selected" (1859. p. 5). Darwin made it plain. in this initial statement and in all his subsequent writings. that... | |
| Patrick R. Hof, Charles V. Mobbs - Science - 2001 - 960 pages
...to the substantially increasing burden of those disorders? Charles Darwin (1859) deduced that in the "struggle for existence, it follows that any being,...varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of survival." Accordingly, survival is not random, and competition for survival will result in "survival... | |
| Izabella Nowakowa, Leszek Nowak - Philosophy - 2000 - 546 pages
...recurring struggle for existence. it follows that any heing. if it vary however slightly in any mansier profitable to itself. under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life. will have a hetter chance of surviving. and thus he naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance.... | |
| Niles Eldredge - Religion - 2001 - 228 pages
...each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently occurring Struggle for Existence, it follows that any being,...chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected, (p. 5) In other words, Darwin saw that organisms compete for resources (mostly food — his "Struggle... | |
| Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies - Science - 2002 - 164 pages
...kingdoms. As many more individuals 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. (C. Darwin, 1859, page 3) A primary source is the original work in which a specific piece of information... | |
| L. Jonathan Cohen - Philosophy - 2002 - 364 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...better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.12 What does 'naturally selected' mean here? According to the Oxford English Dictionary13... | |
| Bertie J. Weddell - Business & Economics - 2002 - 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...under the complex and sometimes varying conditions ot life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle... | |
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