| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...successive modifications; yet, they can show that any existing species—animal or vegetable —when placed under conditions different from its previous...natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 pages
...successive modifications ; yet, they can show that any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous...natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 510 pages
...different from its previous ones, immediately beams to undergo certain changes of structure Jilting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive...natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 492 pages
...successive modifications; yet, they can show that any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous...natural ones. They can show that in cultivated plants, in domesticated animals, and in the several races of men, such alterations have taken place. They can... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1896 - 906 pages
...developmental hypothesis can show . . . that any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous...changes of structure fitting it for the new conditions . . . that in successive generations these changes continue until ultimately the new conditions become... | |
| 1895 - 902 pages
...the following quotation is given from one of them : " Any existing species, animal or vegetable, when placed under conditions different from its previous...undergo certain changes of structure fitting it for new conditions." In all (including the quotation), sixteen lines of large type are allotted to Mr.... | |
| William Thomas Stead - 1895 - 630 pages
...existing specie.» — animal or vegetable — when placed under condition» different from its préviens ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes of structure fitting it for the mw conditions. They can show that in successive generations these chanse* continue until ultimately... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 pages
...successive modifications; yet, they can show that any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous...ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 514 pages
...successive modifications; yet, they can show that any existing species — animal or vegetable — when placed under conditions different from its previous...ones, immediately begins to undergo certain changes fitting it for the new conditions. They can show that in successive generations these changes continue... | |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn - 1894 - 284 pages
...as showing his inclination to Buffon's theory : "... Any existing species, animal or vegetable, when placed under conditions different from its previous...changes of structure fitting it for the new conditions. . . . There is at work a modifying influence of the kind they assign as the cause of these specific... | |
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