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" Several writers 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... "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 93, no. 6) - Page 480
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 33

1876 - 828 pages
...remarks : 8 " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term ' natural selection.' Some hare even imagined that natural selection induces variability,...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. The variability which we almost universally meet with in our domestic productions is not directly produced,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...called polymorphic. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...implies only the preservation of such variations as occur and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 2

1867 - 510 pages
...Darwin says himself: " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection . Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...implies only the preservation of such variations as occur and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." — (P. 91.) How can it be said,...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 43

1909 - 838 pages
...clear that Darwin did not regard natural selection in the light of an originating cause : Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability,...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life (p. 63). It would appear that Huxley, in 1860, thought that natural selection was being urged as an...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 43

1909 - 846 pages
...misapprehended or objected to the term natural selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection even induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." Nevertheless, almost side by side with this explanation we find in the last edition of "the Origin,"...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 43

1909 - 828 pages
...misapprehended or objected to the term natural selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection even induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation...are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life.3' Nevertheless, almost side by side with this explanation we find in the last edition of "the...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

1868 - 556 pages
...Darwin says : — " Several writers have misapprehended, or objected to the term natural selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...implies only the preservation of such variations as occur and are beneficial to the being under its condition of life." In page 115 the " Graduate" exclaims...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

1868 - 560 pages
...says : — " Several writers have misapprehended, or objected to the term natural selection. Some havo even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of snch variations as occur and are beneficial to the being under its condition of life." In page 115...
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Nature, Volume 36

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 676 pages
...says : — " Some writers have misapprehended or objected to the term natural selection. Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability...; whereas it implies only the preservation of such varieties as occur, and are beneficial under 268 NATURE 269 the conditions of life." Was not this a...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...nature of the conditions. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...as arise and are beneficial to the being under its coiw ditions of life. No one objects to agriculturists speaking of tba potent effects of man's selection;...
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