 Autobiography " :—- " I soon perceived that selection was the key-stone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants. But how selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery to me.  Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection - Page 43by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - 1896 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...and abstracted, including whole series of Journals and Transactions, I am surprised at my industry. I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me. In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read... | |
 | Scotland - 1888 - 482 pages
...and abstracted, including whole series of Journals and transactions, I am surprised at my industry. I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of...making useful races of animals and plants. But how selections could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature remained for some time a mystery... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1888 - 562 pages
...of his predecessors even remotely approximated; and he very soon had his reward in the discovery " that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants." (I, p. 83.) This was the first step in Darwin's progress, though its immediate result was to bring... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1888 - 572 pages
...of his predecessors even remotely approximated; and he very soon had his reward in the discovery " that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants." (I, p. 83.) This was the first step in Darwin's progress, though its immediate result was to bring... | |
 | New England - 1888 - 704 pages
...keystone of success in making useful races of animals and plants. The mystery to him for a long while was how selection could be applied to organisms living in a state of nature. More than a year after thus beginning his systematic inquiry he happened to read for amusement " Malthus... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus, George Thomas Bettany - Population - 1890 - 714 pages
...words (" Life " i. 83) will best describe the facts of this influence of Malthus upon his views:— "I soon perceived that selection was the keystone...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me. "In October, 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened to read... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1891 - 592 pages
...and abstracted, including whole series of Journals and Transactions, I am surprised at my industry. I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me. In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - Instinct - 1894 - 536 pages
...Selection—Variation. 347 gested by Lamarck, and still earlier by Buffon (1707). "I perceived," says Dr. Darwin, "that Selection was the keystone of Man's success...of Nature, remained for some time a mystery to me. In October, 1838, being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence from long-continued... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - 1894 - 264 pages
...selection was the keystone of the main success in making useful races of animals and plants" ; but says : "how selection could be applied to organisms living...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me." "In October 1838," he writes, "that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 274 pages
...was the keystone of the main success in making useful races of animals and plants " ; but says : " how selection could be applied to organisms living...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me." "In October 1838," he writes, "that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic inquiry, I happened... | |
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