| Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...kind are beautifully adapted to their habitats of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. The subject haunted him. He was back in England in October, 1836, having found on his five-year voyage... | |
| Helena Cronin - Science - 1991 - 510 pages
...innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life ... I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. (Darwin, F. 1892, p. 42) We have seen that Darwinism explains adaptation by cumulative selection: small,... | |
| David Amigoni - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life ... I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified. 4 ° Speciation-as-adaptation to changing conditions of life was Darwin's problem (see note 35). Transmutation... | |
| Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life, — for instance a woodpecker or tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
| Ian Glynn - Medical - 1999 - 468 pages
...particular habits of life, such as those found, for example, in the woodpecker or tree frog — he felt it ‘almost useless to endeavour to prove by indirect evidence that species have been modified¿ Despite this feeling, in July 1837, less than a year after his return to England, and in the middle... | |
| Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 132 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life, - for instance, a woodpecker or tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
| Charles Darwin - History - 2003 - 676 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
| James MacGregor Burns - Business & Economics - 2004 - 340 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life-for instance, a woodpecker or tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes.” After his return to England, he concluded that “by collecting all facts that bore in any way on the... | |
| Charles Darwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 432 pages
...every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life—for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or...indirect evidence that species have been modified. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and... | |
| David N. Stamos - Science - 2012 - 296 pages
...selection, as indicated by what he wrote in his autobiography (1876a). On the topic of adaptation, he wrote "I had always been much struck by such adaptations,...indirect evidence that species have been modified" (199). This needs to be compared with what he wrote on the topic of natural selection: "The old argument... | |
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