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Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … - by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of …
- … Views so idealistic as those upon which his ‘Thoughts upon Species’ are grounded, will not harmonize …
- … compounds again, in the mineral kingdom, as constituting species, in the same sense, fundamentally, …
- … shade, the main features of the theory of the origination of species by means of Natural Selection. …
- … its like from generation to generation, and so continues the species. Taking the idea of species …
- … individual, from which all the individuals composing the species have proceeded by natural …
- … not transitory; so that the primordial differences between species and species at their beginning …
- … through variation. Consequently, whenever two reputed species are found to blend in Nature through a …
- … all the forms, however diverse, are held to belong to one species. Moreover, since bisexuality is …
- … an effectual barrier against the blending of the original species by crossing. From this …
- … descent as the real bond of union among the individuals of a species, and also the idea of a local …
- … the orthodox view of the descent of all the individuals of a species not only from a local …
- … could; so that the actual geographical distribution of any species is by no means a primordial …
- … volume is a protracted argument intended to prove that the species we recognize have not been …
- … agencies for the actual distribution and perpetuation of species, to a supernatural for their origin …
- … affected the range and the association of individuals and species on the earth’s surface. Mr. Darwin …
- … to vary, they have sufficed even to modify the species themselves and produce the present diversity. …
- … the geographical range and the actual association of species, still less their forms; but that every …
- … as varieties, sub-species, and closely-related or representative species—also in a general way for …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … that the perusal of the new book ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ left an …
- … dim forebodings. Investigations about the succession of species in time, and their actual …
- … than the rest of creation, since all Nature is at war, one species with another, and the nearer …
- … up the theory at the introduction of the actually existing species, we should be well content; and …
- … to believe that varieties are incipient or possible species, when we see what trouble naturalists, …
- … as to what is the basis in Nature upon which our idea of species reposes, or how the word is to be …
- … over the human races, as to whether they belong to one species or to more, and, if to more, whether …
- … fitting occasion, as, for instance, in the succession of species which differ from each other only …
- … be developed into the scow, the skiff, the sloop, and other species of water-craft—the very …
- … wherefore these go slowly out of use, and become extinct species: this is Natural Selection . Now …
- … inference. Why not hold fast to the customary view, that all species were directly, instead of …
- … of them calls ‘that mystery of mysteries,’ the origin of species? To this, in general, …
- … that of the reduction of supposed independently originated species to a common ultimate origin—thus, …
- … and convertible forms of one force, instead of independent species—which has brought the so-called …
- … the members of each group may not be mere varieties of one species—and which speculates steadily in …
- … of prototype or simple element which may be to the ordinary species of matter what the Protozoa …
- … such an age cannot be expected to let the old belief about species pass unquestioned. It will raise …
- … Since, then, questions about the origin of species will be raised, and have been raised—and since …
- … in particulars, all proceed upon the notion that one species of plant or animal is somehow derived …
- … variety to propagate its like—the patent facts that all species vary more or less; that domesticated …
- … in structure and appearance as widely as do many admitted species; and it is practically very …
- … as to whether various forms shall be held to be original species or strong varieties. Moreover, the …
- … diverse forms have been educed from one stock. 2. Species of the same genus are not …
- … respect analogous to that of the varieties of a polymorphous species, some of them slight, others …
- … of composition of organisms, also to explain rudimentary and representative organs, and the natural …
- … the unity of composition of all organisms, the existence of representative and rudimentary organs, …
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … needs to be done, but I think that [the evidence so far] is [representative of] the reality.) So, …
- … preface to the third edition [of Darwin's On the origin of species], and I’ve heard you remark …
- … from Bory, when he published in 1822 that varieties become species through a constant process of …
- … and said, which are the main views on the transformation of species today? And he gave a fair …
- … our darling. Yet, she writes in the preface to the Origin of Species that the worst of all sins is …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … It is very strange that plants, if they belong to the same species, should behave so differently.’ ( …
- … I intend to denote the complex emotion (dependent on the representative faculties) which, having …
- … the Royal Institution, ‘The coming of age of the Origin of species’. Darwin admitted that the …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … that I shall give a minute and exact description of the new species of “Fortunes” which I discovered …
- … reasonably applicable to the pace of a biped of the Genus or Species Homo) in civilization.” …
- … superfices - the remainder being covered with trees of other species of the class – peculiarly …
- … of the bushy trees particularly those of a willow-looking species bearing clusters of curious …
- … with every passing breath of air – whilst fish of various species some of large size are playing …
- … There are also besides these – birds of several other species tho’ less numerous – little flocks of …
- … – dignity &c by a Government in its capacity of general representative of the Nation – altho’ …
- … by way of punishment had a raft of spars (of a spongy species of wood) made – on which he ^had^ …
- … on a small portion of its surface – some of the coarser species of banana and papayas ^and the soft …
- … been brought – or concede to them – on his Estate that species of freedom which has been right …
- … trees (these being in fact of the real ancient Hesperidian species) and directly I saw advancing …
- … non-institution of Caucus' and Congresses – or – of that Species of political freedom which the …
- … envelope the House – they must be of Brobdignagian species – the nuts having been doubtless drifted …
- … that country – embarked on the nuts– and are of that species of which a certain Voyageur hath …