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" The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature. "
The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer ... - Page 38
1902 - 173 pages
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 pages
...in organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...highly diversified places in the economy of nature." (I, p. 84.) It is curious that so much importance should be attached to this supplementary idea. It...
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Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures

James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1890 - 440 pages
...and better defence, etc. All this is precisely what is meant by Mr. Darwin when he says (L 84) : " The modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly-diversified places in the economy of nature." To the same effect Mr. Darwin says more fully...
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Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures

James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1890 - 440 pages
...and better defence, etc. All this is precisely what is meant by Mr. Darwin when he says (i. 84): " The modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly-diversified places in the economy of nature." To the same effect Mr. Darwin says more fully...
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Animal Life and Intelligence

Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1891 - 542 pages
...of immense advantage to life in general, enabling, as Darwin said, its varying and divergent forms to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature, still in many individual cases it is neither possible nor in any respect necessary to our conception...
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a ...

Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down. The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to" Early in 1856 Lyell advised me to write out my views pretty fully, and I began at once to do so on...
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Darwinianism: Workmen and Work

James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...precisely to the centre of what is concerned and make all clear even to his children (i. 84): "The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...highly diversified places in the economy of nature " (or see in the 0i-igin the whole theme formally discussed at pp. 86 sqq.). When we understand that...
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Darwiniana: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution - 1894 - 504 pages
...organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified. . . . The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...highly diversified places in the economy of nature." (1. p. 84.) It is curious that so much importance should be attached to this supplementary idea. It...
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Two Spheres; Or, Mind Versus Instinct

W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, and so forth. The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring...highly diversified places in the economy of Nature." This great proposition may, we think, be admitted generally, if the meaning is strictly limited to...
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The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All ..., Volume 10

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Biography - 1895 - 476 pages
...the completest way. " Early in 1856 (he says in his Autobiography) Sir Charles Lyell (the geologist) advised me to write out my views pretty fully, and I began to do so on a scale three or four times as extensive as that which was afterwards followed in my Origin...
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The Method of Darwin: A Study in Scientific Method

Frank Cramer - Evolution - 1896 - 246 pages
...solution occurred to me ; and this was long after I had come to Down." 1 The solution was this, — "that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing...highly diversified places in the economy of nature." It seems very simple now to understand that the tree-like arrangement of species must be regarded as...
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