 On our theory the continued existence of lowly organisms offers no difficulty ; for natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development — it only takes advantage of such variations as arise and are...  The Columbian Cyclopedia - Page 2271897Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...matter. On my theory the present existence of lowly organized productions offers no difficulty ; for natural selection includes no necessary and universal...each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked, what advantage, as far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 834 pages
...difficulty ; for Natural Selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development — it only takes advantage of such variations...each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked, What advantage, so far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule,... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 822 pages
...difficulty ; for Natural Selection, or the Survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development — it only takes advantage of such variations...each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked, What advantage, so far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 492 pages
...the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development—it only takes advantage of sucn variations as arise and are beneficial to each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked what advantage, asFfar as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule—to... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...difficulty; for natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development, it only takes advantage of such variations...each creature under its complex relations of life Geology tells us that some of the lowest forms, the infusoria and rhizopods, have remained for an enormous... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...difficulty; for natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development — it only takes advantage of such variations...each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked what advantage, as far «s we can see, would it bo to an infusorian animalcule... | |
 | 1878 - 880 pages
...яттппЦ have a common origin. He completely rejects Lamarck's notion, that new and simple forms are continually being produced by spontaneous generation....little improved,' as geology tells us of infusoria and rhizopoda, which have remained for an enormous period in nearly their present state. That species differ... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1881 - 366 pages
...difficulty; for natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development, — it only takes advantage of such variations...each creature under its complex relations of life." — Origin of Species, sixth edition, p. 98. This wears the aspect of a limitation of the theory, and... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1881 - 366 pages
...selection, or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarily include progressive development,—it only takes advantage of such variations as arise and...creature under its complex relations of life."— Origin of Species, sixth edition, p. 98. This wears the aspect of a limitation of the theory, and to... | |
 | 1881 - 904 pages
...PEABLT NAUTILUS. means includes " progressive development — it only takes advantage," he remarks, "of such variations as arise and are beneficial to...each creature under its complex relations of life. And it may be asked, what advantage, as far as we can see, would it be to an infusorian animalcule... | |
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