If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. The Soul: A Study and an Argument - Page 155by David Syme - 1903 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1871 - 608 pages
...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ; ' and ' if it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection ' (p. 220). It is almost... | |
| 1871 - 808 pages
...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ; " and " if it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection." p. 220 It is almost impossible... | |
| 1871 - 860 pages
...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth; " and " if it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection " (p. 220). It is almost... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pages
...new species, through the cruel, pitiless, and selfish law of Natural Selection. " If," says Darwin, " it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection."* Thus selfishness and... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects. If it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. Although many statements... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects. If it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not nave been produced through natural selection. Although many statements... | |
| 568 pages
...form — either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth ; " and "if it could bo proved that any part of the structure of any one species...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not havr been produced by natural selection." f Mr. Darwin could hardly have... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 540 pages
...stated to be to direct to the snake the attention of its enemies— he goes out of the way to repeat that "if it could be proved that any part of the structure...another species, it would annihilate his theory." Why it would annihilate his theory, we must confess we are unable to understand ; since Mr. Darwin... | |
| 1871 - 612 pages
...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ; ' and ' if it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection' (p. 220). It is almost... | |
| 1871 - 446 pages
...special use to some ancestral form, directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ; ' and ' If it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.' — (p. 220). It is almost... | |
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