 | George John Romanes - Evolution - 1897 - 218 pages
...MODIFICATION OTHER THAN NATURAL SELECTION. 3. THEREFORE, AND UPON THE WHOLE, AS DARWIN so EMPHATICALLY HELD, "NATURAL SELECTION HAS BEEN THE MAIN, BUT NOT THE EXCLUSIVE MEANS OF MODIFICATION." 4. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT ALL SPECIES AND ALL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS MUST NECESSARILY OWE THEIR ORIGIN... | |
 | George John Romanes - Evolution - 1897 - 212 pages
...MODIFICATION OTHER THAN NATURAL SELECTION. 3. THEREFORE, AND UPON THE WHOLE, AS DARWIN so EMPHATICALLY HELD, "NATURAL SELECTION HAS BEEN THE MAIN, BUT NOT THE EXCLUSIVE MEANS OF MODIFICATION." 4. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT ALL SPECIES AND ALL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS MUST NECESSARILY OWE THEIR ORIGIN... | |
 | George John Romanes - Evolution - 1897 - 226 pages
...MODIFICATION OTHER THAN NATURAL SELECTION. 3. THEREFORE, AND UPON THE WHOLE, AS DARWIN so EMPHATICALLY HELD, "NATURAL SELECTION HAS BEEN THE MAIN, BUT NOT THE EXCLUSIVE MEANS OF MODIFICATION." 4. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT ALL SPECIES AND ALL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS MUST NECESSARILY OWE THEIR ORIGIN... | |
 | Berthold Seemann - Botany - 1898 - 576 pages
...on Isolation as a factor of organic evolution," and concludes with twelve "Articles," which declare that "Natural Selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification," for "without isolation, or the prevention of intercrossing, organic evolution is in no case possible.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1902 - 372 pages
...front on my father's part. As a matter of fact the first edition of the Origin contains the words, "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification." Moreover, any alteration that his views may have undergone was due not to a change of opinion, but... | |
 | Evolution - 1902 - 200 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification. " This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1904 - 274 pages
...not regard natural selection as the sole factor in organic evolution. " I am convinced," he said, " that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification." Wallace, the joint discoverer of the doctrine, has, however, again and again stated that he believes... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1904 - 276 pages
...not regard natural selection as the sole factor in organic evolution. " I am convinced," he said, " that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive means of modification." Wallace, the joint discoverer of the doctrine, has, however, again and again stated that he believes... | |
 | George John Romanes - Evolution - 1906 - 220 pages
...MODIFICATION OTHER THAN NATURAL SELECTION. 3. THEREFORE, AND UPON THE WHOLE, AS DARWIN SO EMPHATICALLY HELD, “NATURAL SELECTION HAS BEEN THE MAIN, BUT NOT THE EXCLUSIVE MEANS OF MODIFICATION.” 4. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT ALL SPECIES AND ALL SPECIFIC CHARACtERS MUST NECESSARILY OWE THEIR ORIGIN... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 pages
...placed in a most conspicuous position—namely, at the close of the Introduction—the following words: 'I am convinced that natural selection has been the...main but not the exclusive means of modification.'" 1 See the chapter contributed to the Life and Letters ofCharles Darwin, np 195. I do not clearly understand... | |
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He was more cautious in publication, for in the first edition of the Origin of Species, which appeared in the same year, he said: "I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not the 'exclusive, means of modification. 
