...Thus, for Darwin, "nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions" and "should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life" (84). Unlike domestic productions, then, which are produced by artificial selection and accordingly...

...his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then,...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every...

...his own good, Nature for that of the being whom she tends." " Can we wonder, then," says Darwin, " that Nature's productions should be far truer in character...plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship." When we see leaf eating insects green, and bark feeders mottled grey, the alpine ptarmigan white in...