 | Joshua Lawrence Eason, Maurice Harley Weseen - English essays - 1921 - 472 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...sake the general term of Struggle for Existence." 5. Survival of the Fittest. — In this struggle for existence only those best suited to their environment... | |
 | Lucius Moody Bristol - Adaptation (Biology). - 1921 - 382 pages
...to call for consideration together, as was done by Darwin. " A struggle for existence," he says, " inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase." * The term "struggle for existence " is used in a large and metaphorical sense, as Darwin takes pains... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - Anthropology - 1924 - 606 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience's sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. GEOMETRICAL RATIO or INCREASE A struggle... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...by birds, its existence depends on them ; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience's sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. Geometrical Ratio of Increase A struggle... | |
 | Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - Sociology - 1928 - 824 pages
...preservation," a meaning far broader than a mere "extermination or elimination" of other organisms. In these several senses, which pass into each other,...sake the general term of "Struggle for Existence." '2 This shows that Darwin practically left his conception of the struggle for existence undefined.... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - Evolution - 1928 - 160 pages
...on the birds by which it is disseminated, he would "metaphorically" say that it struggles with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds. Here, indeed, we get the suggestion of a better, more reasonable, interpretation of the phenomenon... | |
 | David J. Merrell - Science - 1981 - 514 pages
...disseminated by birds, its existence depends on them; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in tempting the birds to devour...convenience' sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. In the next paragraph the following sentence occurs: "Hence, as more individuals are produced than... | |
 | Daniel P. Todes - Science - 1989 - 242 pages
...in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other,...convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence. 3 The "struggle for existence," then, was a metaphor for a number of different relationships among... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - Aesthetics, Modern - 1989 - 342 pages
...truly said to struggle with the plants of the same and other kinds which already clothe the ground. ... In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience's sake the general term of Struggle for Existence, (pp. 52-53) What for Darwin may be "truly... | |
 | George Levine - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other,...convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence. (p. 116) Beginning with the literal "struggle" of the two canines, Darwin moves dizzyingly to a figurative... | |
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In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience' sake the general term of Struggle for Existence. 
