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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... "
The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution - Page 4
by Edward Drinker Cope - 1904 - 547 pages
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 33

1876 - 828 pages
...dangerous to theism. In appreciation of its being extremely indeterminate as a cause, Darwin remarks : 8 " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term ' natural selection.' Some hare even imagined that natural selection induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...selection, and would be left a fluctuating element, as perhaps we see in the species called polymorphic. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...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
...struggle for existence " was a theory to account for variations. Let me read what Darwin says himself: " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...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 Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

1868 - 556 pages
...this blunder, and probably would not have written his book. At the place cited, Darwin says : — " Several writers have misapprehended, or objected to...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 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 American Naturalist, Volume 43

1909 - 838 pages
...in the third edition of "the Origin" he attempted to clear up this point by means of this statement: Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...selection. Some have even imagined that natural selection even induces variability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as arise and...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

1868 - 560 pages
...this blunder, and probably would not have written his book. At the place cited, Darwin 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...
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Nature, Volume 36

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 676 pages
...precise words repeated in several places (see pages 71, 91, 123, &c.). At page 91 he 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...
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of ...

Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...would ultimately become fixed, owing to the nature of the organism and the nature of the conditions. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...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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