 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...has in all the varieties of her offspring a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...occupancy than any other kind; the weaker and less circumStance-suited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action; it regulates... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - Science - 1981 - 360 pages
...his statement that "the extreme fecundity of nature . . . has .... a prolific power much beyond . . . what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused by senile decay." 23. See Russell (1935, pp. 72-73) for the quotation. Marx was the first to note the resemblance of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1993 - 836 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action, it regulates... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity from the strict ordeal by which Nature tests their adaptation to her standard of perfection and fitness... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1879 - 670 pages
...Lamarck, Darn-in, and Mr. Butler himself. The following quotations illustrate Mr. Matthews's views : — " As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-to-circumstance individuals who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting... | |
 | Mike Hawkins - History - 1997 - 360 pages
...pressure of population on subsistence. Matthew stressed the 'extreme fecundity of nature' and argued that: 'As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied,...power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstance-suited, being prematurely destroyed' (107-8). He suggested that an examination of... | |
 | Ernest B. Hook - Philosophy - 2002 - 398 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond ;in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to mamrity, these inhabiting only the tituations to which they have superior adaptation and greater power... | |
 | Trevor Palmer - Nature - 2003 - 560 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, better suited to circumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting... | |
 | 998 pages
...in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what is necessary to fill up the vacancies caused...power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker, less circumstancesuited being prematurely destroyed. This principle is in constant action, it regulates... | |
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The self-regulating adaptive disposition of organised life, may, in part, be traced to the extreme fecundity of Nature, who, as before stated, has, in all the varieties of her offspring, a prolific power much beyond (in many cases a thousandfold) what... 
