Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of mr. Charles Darwin. Op. 4 |
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... parents and offspring in succes- sive generations ; secondly , it must be seen that an organism's memory goes back for generations beyond its birth , to the first beginnings in fact , of which we know anything whatever ; thirdly , the ...
... parents and offspring in succes- sive generations ; secondly , it must be seen that an organism's memory goes back for generations beyond its birth , to the first beginnings in fact , of which we know anything whatever ; thirdly , the ...
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... parents and offspring as that the self- development of the latter can be properly called habitual ( as being a repetition of an act by one and the same individual ) , and can only be fully sympa- * Page 210 , first edition . thized with ...
... parents and offspring as that the self- development of the latter can be properly called habitual ( as being a repetition of an act by one and the same individual ) , and can only be fully sympa- * Page 210 , first edition . thized with ...
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... parents , and broad suggestions to the effect that the former must be considered as capable of remembering , under certain circumstances , what had happened to it , and what it did , when it was part of the personality of those from ...
... parents , and broad suggestions to the effect that the former must be considered as capable of remembering , under certain circumstances , what had happened to it , and what it did , when it was part of the personality of those from ...
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... parents and offspring , with a bolder reference of the facts of heredity ( whether of structure or instinct ) , to memory pure and simple ; a clearer perception of the conse- quences that follow from the survival of the fittest , and a ...
... parents and offspring , with a bolder reference of the facts of heredity ( whether of structure or instinct ) , to memory pure and simple ; a clearer perception of the conse- quences that follow from the survival of the fittest , and a ...
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... parents and offspring ; no reference to memory in con- nection with heredity , whether of instinct or structure ; an exaggerated view of the consequences which may be deduced from the fact that the fittest commonly survive in the ...
... parents and offspring ; no reference to memory in con- nection with heredity , whether of instinct or structure ; an exaggerated view of the consequences which may be deduced from the fact that the fittest commonly survive in the ...
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Page 230 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity-, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
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Page 331 - ... any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes of structure fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue, until ultimately the new conditions become the natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place.
Page 364 - In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, Natural Selection is a false term; but who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements ? — and yet an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines.
Page 25 - Introduction, explaining the purpose of the present Course, and its use in Schools, or for Home Study. — Part II. Lecture I. The first Elements of Mechanical Physics. Lecture II. Mechanical Physics (continued). — Part III. Lecture III. Mechanical Physics (concluded}. Lecture IV. Chemical Physics.— Part IV.
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Page 12 - ... the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Page 375 - ... the wingless condition of so many Madeira beetles is mainly due to the action of natural selection, combined probably with disuse. For during many successive generations each individual beetle which flew least, either from its wings having been ever so little less perfectly developed or from indolent habit, will have had the best chance of surviving from not being blown out to sea...