We cannot suppose that all the c— HC x1 breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in many cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection : nature gives... The Origin of Species - Seite 46von Charles Darwin - 1909 - 552 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1861 - 716 Seiten
...these causes of change, however, man's power of accumulative selection predominates. (Pp. 44, 45.) "Nature gives successive variations; man adds them...directions useful to him. In this sense, he may be said to make for himself useful breeds." (P. 34-.) In this manner new races or varieties are produced within... | |
| 1860 - 512 Seiten
...mazes in which he henceforth continues to wander. He attributes the varieties of domestic animals to "Man's power of accumulative selection ; nature gives...adds them up in certain directions useful to him." We object to this, as altogether a partial and imperfect statement. It is not nature that gives the... | |
| 1860 - 656 Seiten
...contrary impression in the mind of the trusting reader. " We cannot suppose," he says, "that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 360 Seiten
...in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability. We cannot suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative... | |
| 1861 - 716 Seiten
...these causes of change, however, man's power of accumulative selection predominates. (Pp. 44, 45.) " Nature gives successive variations ; man adds them...directions useful to him. In this sense, he may be said to make for himself useful breeds." (P. 34.) In this manner new races or varieties are produced within... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 Seiten
...in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability. We cannot suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability. We cannot suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 Seiten
...in his eyes, we must, I think, look further than to mere variability. We cannot suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in many cases, wo know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative selection : nature... | |
| 1910 - 828 Seiten
...that the improved breeds had been obtained in this manner. He says : We can not suppose that all the breeds were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful...sense he may be said to have made for himself useful breeds.1 1 Contribution VI, Laboratory Experimental Plant-breeding, Cornell University. The writer... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 Seiten
...must, I think, look further ( than to mere variability. We cannot suppose that all the breecTs^were suddenly produced as perfect and as useful as we now see them ; indeed, in several cases, we know that this has not been their history. The key is man's power of accumulative... | |
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