 Darwin as to the display of color and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total absence of any evidence that the females admire or even notice this display. The hen, the turkey, and the pea-fowl, go on feeding while the male is displaying his finery,...  The American Naturalist - Página 7191877Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1877 - 528 páginas
...selection. Amid the copious mass of facts and opinions collected by Mr. Darwin as to the display of colour and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total absence of a,ny evidence that the females admire cr even notice this display. The hen, the turkey, and the peafowl go on feeding while the male is displaying... | |
 | 1878 - 616 páginas
...know that in many species the male displays his colors and ornament?, but, as Mr. Wallace contends, there is a total absence of any evidence that the...energy, rather than his beauty, which wins the day." Here, again, vigor and intense vitality seem to be the chief recommendations of the male in the eyes... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1878 - 606 páginas
...in design — is totally unproven. There is no evidence that the females admire, or even notice, the display. " The hen, the turkey, and the pea-fowl go...feeding while the male is displaying his finery." The flutterings and dancings, the erection of tails and crests, are probably a mere result of the exuberant... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 416 páginas
...by the male birds, there is a total absenee of any evidenee that the females admire or even notiee this display. The hen, the turkey, and the pea-fowl go on feeding while the male is displaying his fmery ; and there is reason to believe that it is his persistency and energy rather than his beauty... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - 1887 - 586 páginas
...that " amid the copious mass of facts and opinions collected by Mr. Darwin as to the display of colour and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total...pea-fowl go on feeding while the male is displaying hia finery ; and there is reason to believe that it is his persistency and energy rather than his beauty... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - 1887 - 650 páginas
...the pame-eock, even though that bird may not actually drive away the male of her own variety." colour and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total absence of any evidence that tlie females admire or even notice this ditplay. The hen, the turkey, and the pea-fowl go on feeding... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 518 páginas
...selection. Amid the copious mass of facts and opinions collected by Mr. Darwin as to the display of colour and ornaments by the male birds, there is a total absence of any evidence that the females, as a rule, admire or even notice this display. The hen, the 2-B turkey, and the pea-fowl go on feeding... | |
 | 1892 - 868 páginas
...the other hand, Alfred Russel Wallace maintains a very different position. ' There is,' he says, ' a total absence of any evidence that the females admire or even notice the display of the males. Among butterflies there is literally not one particle of evidence that the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 884 páginas
...the other hand, Alfred Russel Wallace maintains a very different position. "There is,1 he says, aa total absence of any evidence that the females admire or even notice the display of the males. Among butterflies there is SEYCHELLES — SEYCHELLES COCOANUT literally not... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 820 páginas
...On the other hand, Alfred Russel Wallace maintains a very different position. "There is.): he says, <(a total absence of any evidence that the females admire or even notice the display of the males. Among butterflies there is SEYCHELLES — SEYCHELLES COCOANUT literally not... | |
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