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On the Genesis of Species

By St. George Jackson Mivart

2018-10-18 16:25:42

the perfume of the rose and the violet, the brilliancy of the tulip and the sweetness of the nectar of flowers; not only does it help us to understand all these, but serves as a basis of future research and of inference from the known to the unknown, ... Read more
the perfume of the rose and the violet, the brilliancy of the tulip and the sweetness of the nectar of flowers; not only does it help us to understand all these, but serves as a basis of future research and of inference from the known to the unknown, and it guides the investigator to the discovery of new facts which, when ascertained, it seems also able to co-ordinate.[6] Nay, "Natural Selection" seems capable of application not only to the building up of the smallest and most insignificant organisms, but even of extension beyond the biological domain altogether, so as possible to have relation to the stable equilibrium of the solar system itself, and even of the whole sidereal universe. Thus, whether this theory be. Less

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File size1187.23 KB
Print pages248
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2015-09-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1505247764
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St. George Jackson Mivart
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St. George Jackson Mivart FRS was an English biologist. He is famous for starting as an ardent believer in natural selection who later became one of its fiercest critics. Mivart attempted to reconcile...

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