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 Monist - Page 552edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
| 1891 - 208 pages
...in one direction such variations as "arise "by unknown laws, and tend to add to their usefulness : " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...it implies only the preservation of such variations at arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life."— "Unless favorable variations... | |
| E. Edmond - 1887 - 274 pages
...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to... | |
| E. Edmond - 1887 - 270 pages
...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 776 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... | |
| William Ward McLane - 1892 - 280 pages
...life as tend more and more to become improved in relation to their environment. " Natural selection implies only the preservation of such variations as...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." 1 " Man selects only for his own good, Nature only for that of the being which she tends." " Sexual... | |
| 1892 - 472 pages
...ELLIOT, Inheritance of Acquired Characters. *JQ tions, I call natural selection.* — Some," he states, "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" ; and he farther says,t "unless... | |
| James Iverach - 1894 - 264 pages
...Cunningham, p. xxi.) With this view of the action of natural selection Mr. Darwin seems himself to agree : " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life" (Origin of Species, p. 110). But does Mr. Darwin himself always use the words in this sense ? On the... | |
| Edward Drinker Cope - 1904 - 580 pages
...statement makes no attempt to account for the origin of variations, but that it simply formulates, as observed by Mr. Darwin, the doctrine of survival...being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agricultur1sts speaking of the potent effects of man's selection, and in this case the individual differences... | |
| Thomson Jay Hudson - 1899 - 394 pages
...preservative, not causative. This, indeed, is all that Darwin himself claimed for natural selection. " It implies only the preservation of such variations...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life," 1 are his words. The rest was left to chance. Romanes adopts natural selection as his theory of the... | |
| Walter Warren Seton - 1903 - 168 pages
...procedure at all, as so many writers say. It is, as Darwin insisted, only a metaphor. Thus he writes : — "Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to... | |
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