 | Charles Darwin - Reference - 1996 - 382 pages
...of far higher workmanship? It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each... | |
 | Susan Wells - Education - 1996 - 312 pages
...force. Darwin faced similar rhetorical difficulties. Consider this passage from The Origin of Species: It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving... | |
 | Robert Lynn Carroll - Science - 1997 - 442 pages
...resources. These are the forces that Darwin (1859, p. 84) argued were ". . . daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good. . . ." Studies of both wild and laboratory populations demonstrate that differing selection pressures... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - History - 1997 - 336 pages
...selection, this way in the Origin: "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each... | |
 | Keith Ansell-Pearson - Philosophers, French - 1997 - 296 pages
...its rigour. Darwin continues: It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up that which is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the... | |
 | James Reeve Pusey - Literary Collections - 1998 - 282 pages
...preserved the old. 3. Natural selection is not engaged in "the work of improvement."109 It may not be said "that natural selection is daily and hourly...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke, John Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor - Religion - 2000 - 392 pages
...model. When he wrote in the Origin of Species that 'natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest;...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good', he was moving beyond analogy, attributing to natural selection the characteristics of an active being.50... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1997 - 356 pages
...to the catastrophe seemed to be without distinction or prospects. Although, as Darwin pointed out, "natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing,...throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest," there are, nevertheless, numerous limits or constraints on its power to bring about change. First of... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - Medical - 1999 - 348 pages
...life. Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. ... It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly...is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each... | |
 | Joseph Lopreato, Timothy Alan Crippen - Social Science - 2001 - 348 pages
...problem seems to have been started by Darwin himself (1859: 90 — emphasis modified), as follows: It may metaphorically be said that natural selection...daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good;... | |
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever... 
