 If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?  The Columbian Cyclopedia - Page 2271897Full view - About this book
 | Zoology - 1890 - 414 pages
...group of individuals belonging to the same species has generally some effect upon the chance of life. "Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals...chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ? " (' Origin of Species,' chap. iv). Of late years, another view has received support from various... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...improbable that variations, useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...surviving and of procreating their kind ? On the other hand, we may be sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. 22... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 pages
...great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations 1 If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many...others, would have the best chance of surviving, and of propagating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | 1860 - 532 pages
...occurred that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...than can possibly survive), that individuals having advantages however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 564 pages
...occurred, that other variations, useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals nre born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others,... | |
 | 1860 - 982 pages
...If such do occur, then, remembering the struggle for existence, individuals possessing any advantage over others would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind, while injurious variations would be rigidly destroyed. Such a continual preservation of favorable,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed.... | |
 | 1861 - 824 pages
...undoubtedly occurred, that other variations useful in some way in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...generations? If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that more individuals are born than can possibly survive), that individuals having any advantage, however... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...occurred, that other variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands...chance of surviving and of procreating their .kind? lOn the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation [in the least degree injurious would be rigidly... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...expected that other variations, useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations ? If such do occur, then, remembering the struggle for existence, individuals possessing any advantage over others would... | |
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