 | Roger N. Lancaster - 2003 - 466 Seiten
...often lost on subsequent Darwinists. Not every trait is "adaptive," nor is every trait "selected." "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,... | |
 | Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Gregory Radick - 2003 - 504 Seiten
...to explain a wide variety of biological phenomena. Third, and surely most well known, is the thesis that 'natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification'.5 As we shall see, much philosophical discussion has been provoked by this last idea,... | |
 | Angus M. Gunn - 2015 - 199 Seiten
...formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been independently created — is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species arc the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the... | |
 | Wallace Arthur - 2004 - 252 Seiten
...to persuade us that it was the only such driver. He famously said, at the end of his Introduction: 'I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.' But Darwin the pluralist coexisted with Darwin the man with the big idea. There is one important feature... | |
 | Raymundo Bautista Ramos - 2009 - 275 Seiten
...a most conspicuous position — naniely at the cióse of uie Introduction — the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation..."... | |
 | Zainal Abidin Bagir - 2005 - 250 Seiten
...post-Darwinism, we need only quote Darwin in our defence, who wrote in the introduction to The Origin of Species: 'I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...descendants of some other and generally extinct species . . . ' Which is to say that the fact of evolution from common descent seemed to him to be incontrovertible,... | |
 | Simone Roggenbuck - 2005 - 396 Seiten
...naturalists until recently entertained ... that each species has been independently created ... is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...the same genera are lineal descendants of some other ... Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive,... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 Seiten
...which I formerly entertained- namely, that each species has been independently created- is erroneous. I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification. Chapter I Charles Darwin Down, Bromley, Kent. October 1st, 1859. VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION When... | |
 | Allan C. Hutchinson - 2005 - 314 Seiten
...much more pluralistic stance and insist that it is mistaken to bracket Darwin's neglected rider that "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification."21 However, theirs is much more than a fundamentalist argument... | |
 | David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 Seiten
...There is, of course, the passage at the very end of the Introduction to the Origin in which Darwin says "I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification" (6). This was a claim that Darwin repeated throughout his correspondence. One might naturally think,... | |
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I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are... 
