Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... according to which , as some will tell you , the giraffe lengthened its neck by a series of stretch- ings , and the elephant acquired a trunk by continually pulling its own nose . A disinterested advocate will perhaps iv PREFACE .
... according to which , as some will tell you , the giraffe lengthened its neck by a series of stretch- ings , and the elephant acquired a trunk by continually pulling its own nose . A disinterested advocate will perhaps iv PREFACE .
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... continually changing , with the variations of age and food and climate , so that the very rule of resemblance between the producers and the produced will entail another rule of unlikeness between the several members of an offspring not ...
... continually changing , with the variations of age and food and climate , so that the very rule of resemblance between the producers and the produced will entail another rule of unlikeness between the several members of an offspring not ...
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... continually to improve the races of living creatures . On the whole , the wisest , the strongest , the healthiest survive to propagate their species . In the long run , prudence , courage , and tem- perance prevail , and their owners ...
... continually to improve the races of living creatures . On the whole , the wisest , the strongest , the healthiest survive to propagate their species . In the long run , prudence , courage , and tem- perance prevail , and their owners ...
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... continual progress , so that not once merely , but many times over , continents and oceans must have yielded to one ... continually and continuously changing , how clumsy an arrangement it would have been had the forms of life been made ...
... continual progress , so that not once merely , but many times over , continents and oceans must have yielded to one ... continually and continuously changing , how clumsy an arrangement it would have been had the forms of life been made ...
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... continually see them behaving as we ourselves behave when we submit to self - sacrifice for the sake of those we love . We see many animals in possession of laws and con- stitutions answering to our own in all but one particular ...
... continually see them behaving as we ourselves behave when we submit to self - sacrifice for the sake of those we love . We see many animals in possession of laws and con- stitutions answering to our own in all but one particular ...
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