 | Jerome H. Barkow - 2005 - 312 Seiten
...in a most conspicuous position — namely at the close of the Introduction — the following words. "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification." This has been to no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.... | |
 | Willy Coolsaet - 2006 - 388 Seiten
...selection as the most important of evolutionary mechanisms (as do we)" ... Hij haalt instemmend Darwin aan: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification" (SS, blz. 81). 44 Op de vlucht voor de eindigheid keling staan... | |
 | Gloria L. Schaab - 2007 - 256 Seiten
...formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been independently created — is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...I am convinced that natural selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.14 This Darwinian understanding of the... | |
 | Christoph Sconborn, Christoph von Schšnborn - 2007 - 190 Seiten
...of his "Introduction" to the Origin of Species, Darwin sums up the essence of his theory as follows: I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, means of modification.' Through an honest and intense intellectual... | |
 | David Young - 2007 - 12 Seiten
...cause of evolutionary change that could produce well adapted species. As to this cause, Darwin wrote: 'I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.' Accordingly, he plunged straight into a forty-page account of domestic breeding to provide a basis... | |
 | Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall - 2007 - 2057 Seiten
...extension of the theory of natural selection to human psychology and sociology, this was addressed 26 "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification." (1859 p 6). First of all, sexual selection, that is here left aside. For its complex relationship with... | |
 | Robert C. Richardson - 2010 - 227 Seiten
...in the final sentence of the introduction to the Origin of Species, in which he claimed that he is "convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification" (1859, 6). The key thought that was neglected is that natural selection is not the exclusive means... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 2007 - 684 Seiten
...in a most conspicuous position — namely at the close of the 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.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 Seiten
...formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been independently created — is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable;...the main but not exclusive means of modification. The Struggle for Existence BEFORE entering on the subject of this chapter, I must make a few preliminary... | |
 | Elliott Sober - 2008 - 413 Seiten
...of the evolutionary process, Darwin was something of a pluralist. He says in The Origin of Species that "natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification" ([1859] 1964: 6), a remark that Gould and Lewontin (1978) embraced in their attack on adaptationism.... | |
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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... 
