 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 of procreating their kind?  Half-hours with Freethinkers - Page 2edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Biology - 1894 - 1218 pages
...generations ? If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ?" "This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...generations? If such do occur, can we doubt — remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive— that individuals having any advantage,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 924 pages
...generations ? 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 chanre of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 872 pages
...such do occur, can we doiilit— remembering that many more individuals are boni than can |>ossibly survive— that individuals having any advantage,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind Î On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1873 - 522 pages
...complex battle for life, should sometimes occur in the course of thousands of generations, can we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel assured that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 pages
...occur, can we doubt — remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive—that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1880 - 544 pages
...advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of propagating their kind. On the other hand we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious [such as a toothless upper jaw in a calf occurring in a species with full sets of incisors] would be... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1880 - 544 pages
...death, — by the survival of the fittest, and by the destruction of the less well-fitted individuals." "Individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving and of propagating their kind. On the other hand we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
 | T Warren O'Neill - Evolution - 1880 - 482 pages
...(remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive), that individuals having an advantage, however slight, over others, would have...best chance of surviving and procreating their kind?" Now, this is honest, frank, and ingenuous. He does not here, — as he does when treating of the survival... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 pages
...struggle is determined by what Darwin calls " Natural selection." He says (page 63) : " Can we doubt that individuals having any advantage, however slight,...others, would have the best chance of surviving, and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree... | |
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