...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to...

...difference and variation, but rejects variations that are of no service to the species ; it preserves such variations as arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life ; it acts by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to...

...precise words repeated in several places (see pages 71, 91, 123, &c.). At page 91 he says : — " Some writers have misapprehended or objected to the term natural selection. Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability ; whereas it implies only the preservation of such...

...life as tend more and more to become improved in relation to their environment. " Natural selection implies only the preservation of such variations as...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." 1 " Man selects only for his own good, Nature only for that of the being which she tends." " Sexual...

...ELLIOT, Inheritance of Acquired Characters. *JQ tions, I call natural selection.* — Some," he states, "have even imagined that natural selection induces...implies only the preservation of such variations as occur, and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life" ; and he farther says,t "unless...

...Cunningham, p. xxi.) With this view of the action of natural selection Mr. Darwin seems himself to agree : " Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life" (Origin of Species, p. 110). But does Mr. Darwin himself always use the words in this sense ? On the...

...possessors. This fact is more distinctly pointed out in the same work (p. 63) where the author remarks: "Several writers have misapprehended or objected to...being under its conditions of life. No one objects to agricultur1sts speaking of the potent effects of man's selection, and in this case the individual differences...

...preservative, not causative. This, indeed, is all that Darwin himself claimed for natural selection. " It implies only the preservation of such variations...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life," 1 are his words. The rest was left to chance. Romanes adopts natural selection as his theory of the...

...procedure at all, as so many writers say. It is, as Darwin insisted, only a metaphor. Thus he writes : — "Some have even imagined that natural selection induces...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life. . . . Others have objected that as plants have no volition, natural selection is not applicable to...

...select or preserve profitable variations. All through, Nature, or natural selection,4 1 " Some have imagined that natural selection induces variability,...beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." — Origin of Species, p. 58. 2 " Unless such occur, natural selection can do nothing." — Ibid. p....