 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1898 - 628 pages
...conception which is not much more satisfactory than special creation itself. The inadequacy of the view is clearly shown when we consider that the external...inorganic (physical or chemical) environment, while the usefuiness of the response has relation to its organic environment (enemies, prey, etc.). Thus one... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1909 - 1374 pages
...these views is clearly shown when we •nastier that the external forces which awake response in a organism generally belong to its inorganic (physical...or chemical) environment, while the usefulness of response has relation to its organic environment (enemie prey, etc.). Thus one set of forces supplies... | |
 | Hermann Reinheimer - Biology - 1910 - 432 pages
...perfection ' as the motive cause of evolution — a conception not much more satisfactory than that of special creation itself. The inadequacy of these views...environment (enemies, prey, etc.). Thus one set of forces supplied the stimuli which evoke a response to another and very different set of forces. We can therefore... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1898 - 624 pages
...conception which is not much more satisfactory than special creation itself. The inadequacy of the view is clearly shown when we consider that the external...inorganic (physical or chemical) environment, while the usefuiness of the response has relation to its organic environment (enemies. prey, etc.). Thus one... | |
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The inadequacy of these views is clearly shown when we consider that the external forces which awake response in an organism generally belong to its inorganic (physical or chemical) environment, while the usefulness of the response has relation to its... 