 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection...necessity first occur. Others have objected that the term (election implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified ; and it has even been urged... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 402 pages
...with a set purpose in order to produce such and such a result, which result he presently produces. " And in this case the individual differences given by nature, which man for some object selects, must first occur." This shows that the complaint has already reached Mr. Darwin, that in not showing us... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection ; and in this case the individual difference given by nature, which man for some object selects, must of necessity first occur. Others... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1895 - 730 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection,...some object selects, must of necessity first occur." It is evident then that Mr. Darwin did not attempt to account for the origin of variations, but that... | |
 | Edward Drinker Cope - 1896 - 576 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection,...some object selects, must of necessity first occur." It is evident then that Mr. Darwin did not attempt to account for the origin of variations, but that... | |
 | Edward Drinker Cope - 1904 - 580 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agricultur1sts speaking of the potent effects of man's selection,...some object selects, must of necessity first occur." It is evident then that Mr. Darwin did not attempt to account for the origin of variations, but that... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 pages
...with a set purpose in order to produce such and such a result, which result he presently produces. " And in this case the individual differences given by nature, which man for some object selects, must firft occur." This shows that the complaint has already reached Mr. Darwin, that in not showing us... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - 410 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection...man for some object selects, must of necessity first 228 CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE occur. Others have objected that the term selection implies conscious... | |
 | Henri-Paul Cunningham - 1989 - 316 pages
...Descent of Men and Selection in Relation to Sex, New York, The Modem Library, p. 64. 28 Ibidem : « Others have objected that the term selection implies conscious choice in the animais which become modified ; and it has even been urged that, as plants have no volition, natural... | |
 | Leslie Sklair - 1970 - 294 pages
...doubt, natural selection is a misnomer', and it has been open to the objection (wrongly of course) 'that the term selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become modified'.1 Two simple examples, one from the animal world and one from the development of man, will... | |
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... have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions... 