 ... there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest — that the individuals removed by these checks must be on the whole inferior to those that survived.  Science - Page 5101899Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature - 1891 - 518 pages
...to be much more effective in them than in the case of man ; and while pondering vaguely on this fact there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival...must be on the whole inferior to those that survived. In the two hours that elapsed before my ague fit was over I had thought out almost the whole of the... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature - 1891 - 516 pages
...to be much more effective in them than in the case of man; and while pondering vaguely on this fact there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest—that the individuals removed by these checks must be on the whole inferior to those that... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 286 pages
...to be much more effective in them than in the case of man ; and while pondering vaguely on this fact there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival...must be on the whole inferior to those that survived. In the two hours that elapsed before my ague fit was over, I had thought out almost the whole of the... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 486 pages
...the whole increase must be cut off by them every year. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear to me, and in the two hours of my fit I had thought out the main... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Civilization - 1898 - 454 pages
...the whole increase must be cut off by them every year. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear to me, and in the two hours of my fit I had thought out the main... | |
 | Natural History Society of New Brunswick - Natural history - 1902 - 620 pages
...whole increase must be cut off by them •every year. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear to me, and in the two hours of my fit I had thought out the main... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 502 pages
...the whole increase must be cut off by them every year. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...generation of animals or plants, and the changes of ciimate, of food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - History of mathematics - 1909 - 318 pages
...while pondering Fig. 27 — VARIATIONS UNDER DOMESTICATION. — DOGS. (Romanes.) vaguely on this fact, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest. In the two hours that elapsed before my ague fit was over I had thought out almost the whole of the... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1920 - 488 pages
...of Malthus that population increast faster than the means of subsistence and, to use his own words, "There suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest". Darwin had simply delayed publication but magnanimously gave Wallace equal credit.2 In 1859, the epoch-making... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1140 pages
...in the Moluccas, he began to think of Malthus's Essay on Population, and, 'to use his own words, " there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest." The theory was thought out during the rest of the ague fit, drafted the same evening, written out in... | |
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