Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of EssaysMacmillan, 1871 - 384 من الصفحات Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were able to thrive, whilst those in Asia were driven to extinction by competition from more advanced mammals. This led to his theory of natural selection, which he presented to the Linnean Society in 1858 with Charles Darwin. This volume reprints those papers presented to the Linnean Society. |
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... important applications . The present work will , I venture to think , prove , that I both saw at the time the value and scope of the law which I had discovered , and have since been able to apply it to some purpose in a few original ...
... important applications . The present work will , I venture to think , prove , that I both saw at the time the value and scope of the law which I had discovered , and have since been able to apply it to some purpose in a few original ...
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... important additions , among which I may especially mention Mr. Jenner Weir's observations and experi- ments on the colours of the caterpillars eaten or rejected by birds . IV . THE MALAYAN PAPILIONIDE , OR SWALLOW- TAILED BUTTERFLIES ...
... important additions , among which I may especially mention Mr. Jenner Weir's observations and experi- ments on the colours of the caterpillars eaten or rejected by birds . IV . THE MALAYAN PAPILIONIDE , OR SWALLOW- TAILED BUTTERFLIES ...
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... important alter- ations and additions . I had intended to have consider- ably extended this essay , but on attempting it I found that I should probably weaken the effect without add- ing much to the argument . I have therefore preferred ...
... important alter- ations and additions . I had intended to have consider- ably extended this essay , but on attempting it I found that I should probably weaken the effect without add- ing much to the argument . I have therefore preferred ...
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... , but has not been confirmed by any later observers . Daines Barrington , on importance of protection to the female bird . 261 261 372 372B Note B. Note A. CONTENTS . I. — On the Law which has regulated PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... , but has not been confirmed by any later observers . Daines Barrington , on importance of protection to the female bird . 261 261 372 372B Note B. Note A. CONTENTS . I. — On the Law which has regulated PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
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... Importance of the Principle of Utility -Popular Theories of Colour in Animals - Importance of Conceal- ment as influencing Colour - Special modifications of Colour - Theory of Protective Colouring - Objection that Colour as being ...
... Importance of the Principle of Utility -Popular Theories of Colour in Animals - Importance of Conceal- ment as influencing Colour - Special modifications of Colour - Theory of Protective Colouring - Objection that Colour as being ...
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الصفحة 339 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
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