...is in this more than in any other passage that the real assurance of his scientific grasp appears: Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that the term selection implies conscious choice in the animals which become...

...passage contains Darwin's reply to the problems with which the rest of this essay will be concerned. Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...have even imagined that natural selection induces vanability, whereas it implies only the preservation of such variations as anse and are beneficial...

...critical of a causal understanding of natural selection. Thus he (1859: 88 — emphasis added) wrote: Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. Quite right. Natural selection is not an agent; it is a demographic process. Darwin may have taken...

...preservation of favourable individual differences and variations ... I have called Natural Selection. . . . [I]t implies only the preservation of such variations...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. ... In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term. . . . Every one...

...new ones" New Creationism P.29 Darwin mentions the scientists of his day and resisted their views: "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...selection induces variability, whereas it implies on the preservation of such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions...

...Mißverständnis gewarnt, und zwar in möglichst deutlichen Worten (S. 68): „Several writers have misaprehended or objected to the term Natural Selection. Some have...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." Man lese weiterhin z. B. folgende Sätze: S. 59: „ . . . the occurrence of profitable variations....

...(1 : 99) that several of his contemporaries had misapprehended the term natural selection and that Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agriculturalists speaking of the potent effects of man's selection : and in this case the individual...

...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...