The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895W. Blackwood and Sons, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina vi
... NATURAL SELECTION AND ENVIRONMENT · 152 eration , or , rarely , to stagnation . - Natural selection becomes more un- The reversal of the sequence of functions leads to extermination , degen- sparing as we go higher . - Extinction ...
... NATURAL SELECTION AND ENVIRONMENT · 152 eration , or , rarely , to stagnation . - Natural selection becomes more un- The reversal of the sequence of functions leads to extermination , degen- sparing as we go higher . - Extinction ...
Pagina viii
... Natural selection . - Correlation of Fortuitous variation . - Origin of the fittest . - Nägeli's theory : I dency supreme . - Weismann and the Neo - Darwinians : Natural omnipotent . - The Neo - Lamarckians . - Comparison of the Neo - I ...
... Natural selection . - Correlation of Fortuitous variation . - Origin of the fittest . - Nägeli's theory : I dency supreme . - Weismann and the Neo - Darwinians : Natural omnipotent . - The Neo - Lamarckians . - Comparison of the Neo - I ...
Pagina x
... natural selection is " omnipotent " or of only sec importance in evolution , as long as it is a real or which theory of heredity or variation is the probable . If man has been evolved from simple living stance protoplasm , by a process ...
... natural selection is " omnipotent " or of only sec importance in evolution , as long as it is a real or which theory of heredity or variation is the probable . If man has been evolved from simple living stance protoplasm , by a process ...
Pagina xv
... natural selection . And yet Nägeli , and especially Weismann , have had so marked an influence on modern thought that we cannot afford to neglect their theories . We will briefly notice these in the closing chapter . CHAPTER I THE ...
... natural selection . And yet Nägeli , and especially Weismann , have had so marked an influence on modern thought that we cannot afford to neglect their theories . We will briefly notice these in the closing chapter . CHAPTER I THE ...
Pagina 7
... natural and has always been accepted , while the theory of evolu- tion is new and very likely to be as short - lived as many another theory which has for a time fascinated men only to be forgotten or ridiculed . But the idea of ...
... natural and has always been accepted , while the theory of evolu- tion is new and very likely to be as short - lived as many another theory which has for a time fascinated men only to be forgotten or ridiculed . But the idea of ...
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