...number of Lamarckians, some influential writers are introducing the conception of there being definite positions of organic stability, quite independent...process of selection, whether natural or sexual." 1 These views have been recently advocated in an important work on variation, 2 1 Discontinuity in...

...number of Lamarckians, some influential writers are introducing the conception of there being definite positions of organic stability, quite independent...from the process of selection, whether natural or sexual."1 These views have been recently advocated in an important work on variation,2 1 Discontinuity...

...that he considers the reality of positions of organic stability has been proved, and that they are " competent to mould races without any help whatever from the process of selection." At first sight this may appear to be sound reasoning, and to be fatal to some of the claims of the...

...variation" in social or political progress does not necessarily mean revolution. It is a sudden leap "competent to mould races without any help whatever from the process of selection." Sir Henry Howorth, KCIE, in his address delivered as president at the Shrewsbury meeting of the Archaeological...

...number of Lamarckians, some influential writers are introducing the conception of there being definite positions of organic stability, quite independent...sudden leaps of considerable amount, which are thus u competent to mold races without any help whatever from the process of selection, whether natural...

...variation — that is, by spurts or sudden leaps of considerable amount, which are thus " competent to mold races without any help whatever from the process of...have been recently advocated in an important work on variation^ which seems likely to have much influence among certain classes of naturalists; and it is...

...equal merit, but "some influential writers" were "introducing the conception of there being definite positions of organic stability, quite independent of utility and therefore of natural selection."49 These positions were attained by discontinuous changes. Bateson had recently "advocated...

...patterns proved the reality of the alleged positions of orgainc stability, and that the latter were competent to mould races without any help whatever...the process of selection, whether natural or sexual. A single fresh case shall be now introduced, merely for the purpose of varying the character of the...