 I soon perceived that selection was the keystone 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.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Page 453by Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1888Full view - About this book
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...Masterpieces of Science, Vol. I, * Earth ar.d Sky," Sir Charles Lyell on Uniformity in geological change. selection could be applied to organisms living in...of nature remained for some time a mystery to me. In October, 1838, that is fifteen months after 1 had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read... | |
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