| Charles Birch, John B. Cobb - Science - 1985 - 372 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district! (Darwin, 1859, pp. 73-4). Darwin traced out the web of relations between the humble-bee and other species... | |
| Charles Darwin, Joy Harvey, Duncan M. Porter, Jonathan R. Topham - Naturalists - 1997 - 1018 pages
...discussed the 'web of complex relations' that binds plants and animals together; he continued (pp. 73-4): 'the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!' 6 Thomas Henry Huxley and John Tyndall had been on holiday in Switzerland since early July, exploring... | |
| David H. Wise - Nature - 1995 - 346 pages
...transferring pollen between flowers of certain plants. Darwin (1859) asserts '. . . it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!' The web may be even more intricate than Darwin imagined: cats eat birds, which eat spiders, which eat... | |
| Peter J. Bowler - Nature - 1993 - 676 pages
...interactions between the organisms inhabiting a particular area. He suggested14 that 'it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!' The cats caught the mice, which otherwise would destroy the nests of the bees, which were crucial to... | |
| David Amigoni - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...the denotation of a natural process or phenomenon into a sense of wonder: 'Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!' (p. 125). While partly a response to the colourful implications of 'struggle', such animation is also... | |
| William H. Calvin - Medical - 1998 - 266 pages
...elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers...the frequency of certain flowers in that district! 25 JONATHAN WEINER, The Beak of the Finch (Knopf 1994). 25 avoir l'esprit de l'escalier is from HOWARD... | |
| James R. Mensch - Philosophy - 1996 - 324 pages
...number of mice is largely dependent, as everyone knows, on the number of cats." The conclusion, then, is that "the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine ... the frequency of certain flowers." 76 One could, in fact, imagine a dairy which, saving the milk... | |
| Robert Jervis - Political Science - 1998 - 328 pages
...everyone knows, on the number of cats. . . . Hence . . . the presence of feline animals in large numbers might determine, through the intervention first of...of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!52 But even this account may underestimate the complexity of the chains. With fewer cats,... | |
| Charles Darwin - Science - 1998 - 424 pages
...'Social Darwinism', in Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays, p. 89, Verso, London 1980. in a district might determine, through the intervention...the frequency of certain flowers in that district!' (58). This may be 'the great battle of life'; but it is also a demonstration of that 'web of complex... | |
| Josef Hofbauer, Karl Sigmund - Mathematics - 1998 - 356 pages
...number of cats, it is consequently 'quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers might determine, through the intervention first of...and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers !' This self-regulation of population frequencies has been a dominant theme of mathematical ecology.... | |
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