 | John Lewis Gillin, Clarence Gus Dittmer, Roy Jefferson Colbert - Social Problems - 1928 - 552 pages
...is it that nature has made it possible for every species, according to Darwin, to increase at such a rate "that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair." We speak of Nature's prodigality and wastefulness. But this is not mere... | |
 | Geology - 1860 - 484 pages
...food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each ix-curring year." — p. 62. "Theru is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rato, lliat if not destroyed, the earth would soon Le covered by thu progeny of a single pair. Even... | |
 | E. Alison Kay, Olive Schoenberg-Dole - Nature - 1991 - 100 pages
...Sprcirs. Charles Darwin wrote. "There is no exception to the rule that every organic being mcreases at so high a rate: that. if not destroyed. the earth would be covered by the progeny of a smgle pair." The Prodigal and the Prudent Ftgure 26 Hundreds of eggs... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - Science - 1992 - 224 pages
...remain alive, for the world would be unable to contain them. 19 JH van den Berg (1984, pp.114-117). There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.(?5) Does this passage contain a faint suggestion that the principle of birth... | |
 | John Alexander Moore - Science - 1993 - 548 pages
...thousands of seeds each year yet, in natural areas, the number of oak trees remains about the same. There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate,... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - Business & Economics - 1995 - 350 pages
...population problem when he showed that it matters very little how great the biotic potential is. He said: "There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair."7 Italics have been added to focus attention on the key point. The phrase... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them. There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate,... | |
 | Pascal Acot - Ecology - 1998 - 458 pages
...increasing, nioro or loss rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world wonld not hold thorn. There is no exception to the rule that every organic...at so high a rate, that if not destroyed, the earth wonld soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five... | |
 | Robert Nadeau, Minas C. Kafatos - Mathematics - 2001 - 260 pages
...competition for survival from other species, the consequences, in Darwin's view, are easily imagined: "There is no exception to the rule that every organic...destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair."2c Using the example of elephants, Darwin attempted to rstimate the minimum... | |
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There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. 
