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... natural selection has already won a complete and overwhelming victory . One could count on one's fingers the number of eminent naturalists who still decline to adopt it , and the hesitancy of these appears to be determined in the main ...
... natural selection has already won a complete and overwhelming victory . One could count on one's fingers the number of eminent naturalists who still decline to adopt it , and the hesitancy of these appears to be determined in the main ...
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... Nature , or to peer into the proceedings of scientific societies , to see how thoroughly all contemporary inquiry is permeated by the conception of natural selection . The record of research , whether in embryology , in palæontology ...
... Nature , or to peer into the proceedings of scientific societies , to see how thoroughly all contemporary inquiry is permeated by the conception of natural selection . The record of research , whether in embryology , in palæontology ...
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... natural selection with the Newtonian theory is made advisedly , as I wish to call attention to some differences in the aspect of the proofs by which two such different hypotheses are established . First , however , as the point will not ...
... natural selection with the Newtonian theory is made advisedly , as I wish to call attention to some differences in the aspect of the proofs by which two such different hypotheses are established . First , however , as the point will not ...
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... nature . But in the directness with which this question can be answered there is great differ- ence between the two theories . The Newtonian hypothesis asserted the existence of a general physical property of matter , and could ...
... nature . But in the directness with which this question can be answered there is great differ- ence between the two theories . The Newtonian hypothesis asserted the existence of a general physical property of matter , and could ...
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... natural selection to deal with a very complex process , working results of endless diversity throughout the organic world , and often masked in its action by accompany- ing processes , some of ... nature . If ΙΟ [ I. DARWINISM VERIFIED .
... natural selection to deal with a very complex process , working results of endless diversity throughout the organic world , and often masked in its action by accompany- ing processes , some of ... nature . If ΙΟ [ I. DARWINISM VERIFIED .
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