 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations, and until these could be explained it seemed to be almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified. Thus... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery to me. In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1888 - 584 pages
...life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...prove by indirect evidence that species have been modif1ed. perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July 1837. I worked... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 pages
...seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations, and nutil these could be explained it seemed to me almost useless...indirect evidence that species have been modified." (I, p. 82.) The facts to which reference is here made were, without doubt, eminently fitted to attract... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified." (I. p. 82.) The facts to which reference is here made were, without doubt, eminently fitted to attract... | |
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In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement 'Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation... 
