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" ... of the year when food was scarcest; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be rigidly destroyed. I can see no more reason to doubt that these causes in a thousand generations... "
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of ... - Page xcii
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111

1860 - 566 pages
...best climbers would escape the tigers, the worst would be rigidly destroyed. Buffon would have seen no more reason to doubt that these causes, in a thousand...produce a marked effect, and adapt the form of the wild man to obtain fruits rather * By Darwin and 'Wallace, 'Proceedings of the Linnaeaa Society,' August,...
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology, Volumes 3-4

1859 - 578 pages
...be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to cateh more hares : his organization, however, bcing slightly plastic, those individuals with the lightest...would produce a marked effect, and adapt the form o the fox or dog to the catehing of hares instead of rabbits, than tha greyhounds con be improved by...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 66

1860 - 894 pages
...D:ir\vin and Wallace, " Proceedings of the Linnœau Society,'1 August, 1858, p. 45. Buffon would have seen no more reason to doubt that these causes, in a thousand...produce a marked effect, and adapt the form of the wild man to obtain fruits rather than grains, than Darwin now believes that man can be improved by...
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Palaeontology: Or, A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their ...

Richard Owen - 1861 - 490 pages
...and would tend to live longer, and to surviee during that time of the year when food was scareest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend...effect, and adapt the form of the fox or dog to the catehing of hares instead of rabbits, than that greyhounds can be improeed by selection and careful...
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Palaeontology Or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their ...

Richard Owen - 1861 - 552 pages
...no more reason to doubt that these causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked eflVct, and adapt the form of the fox or dog to the catching...can be improved by selection and careful breeding." f Yet this con* Proceedings of the Liantwm Society, Aii/rust IS5S, p. 57. t Proceedings of the Liansean...
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On the anatomy of vertebrates. v.3, 1868, Volume 3

Richard Owen - 1868 - 954 pages
...the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit those slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be...can be improved by selection and careful breeding.' ' So Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire also wrote :— ' Si ces modifications amenent des effets nuisibles, les...
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On the Anatomy of Vertebrates: Mammals

Richard Owen - 1868 - 966 pages
...the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit those slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be...can be improved by selection and careful breeding.' ' So Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire also wrote : — ' Si ces modifications amenent des effets nuisibles, les...
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On the Anatomy of Vertebrates: Mammals

Richard Owen - 1868 - 1046 pages
...the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit those slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be...thousand generations would produce a marked effect, and ad.ipt the form of the fox or dog to the catching of hares instead of rabbits, than that greyhounds...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1869 - 468 pages
...the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit those slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be...can be improved by selection and careful breeding. 'f So Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire also wrote : — ' Si ces modifications amenent des eff-ets nuisibles,...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1869 - 488 pages
...the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit those slight peculiarities. The less fleet ones would be...greyhounds can be improved by selection and careful breeding.'f So Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire also wrote : — ' Si ces modifications amenent des effets nuisibles,...
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