 | Nathan Reingold - Science - 1985 - 352 pages
...bottom, after "group" at the end of the line add, nor in the series. And in one just sense, I agree that "the true notion of the species is not in the resulting group," nor in the genetic series. But objectively the organic species is realized or expressed in the series... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - Science - 1990 - 400 pages
...those ideal units."4) Dana unhesitatingly identified the specific type with the form created by God. "When individuals multiply from generation to generation,...element which is at the basis of every individual of the 3) Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20, 1857, 495. «) Ibid. group."5) Species are, he said,... | |
 | David N. Stamos - Science - 2012 - 296 pages
...chemical elements, the main difference being that individuals of a biological species reproduce, such that "when individuals multiply from generation to generation,...is at the basis of every individual of the group" (487). Ellegard (1958, 210) calls this the traditional view, and I would concur. Secondly and equally... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1858 - 580 pages
...exist. Now in organic beings, — unlike the inorganic, — there is a cycle of progress inrolving growth and decline. The oxygen molecule may be eternal...nearly the same idea when he described a species as aprimortlial organic form. Having reached this idea as the starting point in our notion of a species,... | |
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Hence, when individuals multiply from generation to generation, it is but a repetition of the primordial type-idea ; and the true notion of the species is not in the resulting group but in the idea or potential element which is at the basis of every individual... 
