 Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.  The North American Review - Seite 100herausgegeben von - 1871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Austin Stahl - 2002 - 260 Seiten
...suffering entailed in natural selection be justified by the end result? As Darwin concluded: "Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object that we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows."... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - 2004 - 277 Seiten
...is embedded. As Darwin himself put it, in the famous closing lines of the Origin of Species: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Eric M. Gander - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...between the mechanical regularity of physics and the wonderful unpredictability of biology.26 Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Trevor Palmer - 2003 - 560 Seiten
...principle of natural selection; for old forms will be supplanted by new and improved forms . . . Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.42 Darwin and human evolution What were Darwin's precise views on the 'production... | |
 | John A. Moore - 2002 - 243 Seiten
...Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - 485 Seiten
...humankind, he concludes by allowing his readers to suppose that the process is generally progressive: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Duncan Reid, Mark William Worthing - 2003 - 262 Seiten
...whether one follows Darwin's theory or talks about successive new creations. Therefore Darwin concludes: 'From the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.' Of course, in the Origin of Species Darwin did not yet focus on humanity. But in... | |
 | Mary Low - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Michael D'Orso - 2009 - 370 Seiten
...concludes with a passage that, in the face of eternal destruction, is nothing if not optimistic: Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
 | Victor Schmidt, William Harbert - 2003 - 448 Seiten
...Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally... | |
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