 | C. Leon Harris - 1981 - 360 pages
...staked his entire theory on it. "If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection." The catch here is in the words "if it could be proved." How does one prove... | |
 | David L. Hull - 1990 - 600 pages
...absolutely fatal to my theory. If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. It is not that all large genera are now varying much, and are thus increasing... | |
 | David L. Hull - 1989 - 346 pages
...For example, Darwin ([1859] 1964, 201) states that, if "any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection." If taken at face value, statements such as these certainly make it appear... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - 1995 - 350 pages
...living bodies of other insects. If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.6 From other discussions in the Origin (and elsewhere), it is clear that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 pages
...living bodies of other insects. If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1892 - 676 pages
...statement made by Darwin was, that if any part of the structure of one species could be proved to have been formed for the exclusive good of another species it would annihilate his theory ("Origin," 6th edition, p. 162). Mr. Syme omits the essential word "exclusively," and thus... | |
 | John Alcock - 2001 - 268 pages
...of this point, writing that "if it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection" (p. 189 in [88]). Some evolutionists have continued to explore "group selection"... | |
 | Charles W. Fox, Derek A. Roff, Daphne J. Fairbairn - 2001 - 452 pages
...challenge to potential critics: "If it could be proved thar any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...it would annihilate my theory, for such could not be produced tbrough natural selection" (p. 229l. Darwin went even further by identifying several traits... | |
 | Robert Aunger - 2002 - 404 pages
...establishment. He emphasized that "if it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection." So Darwin was well aware of the problem of altruism — one organism coming... | |
 | Peter Hammerstein - 2003 - 516 pages
...1859, Charles Darwin wrote: ¡fit could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. —The Origin of Species, Chapter 6 This was a bold prediction indeed! Many... | |
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If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. 
