If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind? The Westminster Review - Seite 6691903Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Kathryn Coe - 2003 - 236 Seiten
...those which are injurious" as natural selection, he was thinking about survival (91). When he wrote "[c]an we doubt (remembering that many more individuals...others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?" he clearly was arguing that survival and reproduction were both necessary... | |
| Maria K. Bachman, Don Richard Cox - 2003 - 424 Seiten
...distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life."29 This "struggle for existence" guarantees that "individuals having any advantage, however slight,...chance of surviving and of procreating their kind," while "any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed."30 By removing England... | |
| Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge, Gregory Radick - 2003 - 504 Seiten
...process: natural selection should at least increase fitness. ('Can we doubt', asked Darwin, '. . . that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?'.54) Nevertheless, it is far from the first result of twentieth-century theoretical biology to... | |
| Ray Billington - 2003 - 380 Seiten
...do occur, can we doubt Iremembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survivel that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
| Robert Ghanea-Hercock - 2003 - 248 Seiten
...Thiele, 1995). It is an intuitive process summed up by the Darwinian maxim: . . . [Clan we doubt . . . that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the better chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? This preservation of favourable individual... | |
| Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - 2004 - 332 Seiten
...Darwin's theory of natural selection for in the struggle for life, 'individuals having any advantages, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind'. 140 At the same time, he was sure that variations 'in the least degree injurious' would be destroyed.... | |
| William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse - 2004 - 430 Seiten
...great and complex battle of life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations- If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are bom than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others,... | |
| Jerome S. Bernstein - 2005 - 286 Seiten
...species suicide In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, in discussing "natural selection," asserts: Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals...procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable... | |
| Katrin Lange - 2007 - 140 Seiten
...Life (1859). In seinem Werk erklärt Darwin die „Natural Selection" folgendermassen: „we [can] doubt (remembering that many more individuals are...and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we mayfeel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation... | |
| Massimo Livi Bacci - 2008 - 367 Seiten
..."Natural Selection; or The Survival of the Fittest. " Given biological variations favorable to humans, "can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals...others, would have the best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?"8 We will not fall into a crude Social Darwinism if we extend this observation... | |
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