...congratulated on the great ability with which he has performed his tusk. Ho does not, however, keep out of sight the fact that Mr. Darwin has, in the last...the process of natural selection has been effective m the modifications of species. He adds that " Mr. Darwin himself, from the very nature of the process,...

...fifth edition of his book on species. He says, "In the earlier editions of my Origin of Species, I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or survival of the fittest. I have altered the fifth edition of the Origin so as to confine my remarks to adaptive changes of structure....

...by various authors with respect to animals, that in the earlier editions of my 'Origin of Species' I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection, or survival of the fittest. I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of structures which appear to be, as far as...

...weakness in its denial of teleology and its substitution of natural selection. Darwin himself admits that he had "probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection on the survival of the fittest."297 Herbert Spencer's mechanical view of evolution has been disproved...

...potential. This was what led Darwin to his admission, in chapter 4 of the Descent, that he had formerly "probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or survival of the fittest" in the Origin and that he had not "sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear...

...its kind. From " The Descent of Man," however, we find that Mr. Darwin now recognizes and admits that he had " probably attributed too much to the action of Natural Selection," and that he " had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear...