 ... to me probable that allied species were descended from a common ancestor. But during several years I could not conceive how each form could have been modified so as to become admirably* adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study...  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science - Page 258by Kansas Academy of Science - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 362 pages
...admirably* adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 372 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - Religion and science - 1881 - 366 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began therefore to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...therefore to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man-s power of selecting and breeding from certain individuals...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 246 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began therefore to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realise the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Agnosticism - 1885 - 612 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants: and, after a time, perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realise the struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Cunningham - Evolution - 1886 - 48 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 232 pages
...personal account of his experiments on hybrids. It .was Herbert who, as early as 1822, in the fourth that man's power of selecting and breeding from certain...attended to the habits of animals, and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realise the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began therefore to study domesticated animals and cultivated plants and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realise the severe struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...admirably adapted to its place in nature. I began, therefore, to Study domesticated animals and cultivated plants, and after a time perceived that man's power...attended to the habits of animals and their relations to the surrounding conditions, I was able to realize the severe Struggle for existence to which all organisms... | |
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