 | 1860 - 566 pages
...during that time of the year when food was scarcest on the ground, but ripe and ready on certain trees ; they would also rear more young which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. The best climbers would escape the tigers, the worst would be rigidly destroyed. Buffon would have seen... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pages
...and would tend to live longer, and to survive during that time of the year when food was scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend...causes in a thousand generations 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1859 - 750 pages
...and would tend to live longer, and to survive during that time of the year when food was scarcest; they would also rear more young, which would tend...causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect, and adapt the form of the fox or dog to the catching of hares instead of rabbits, than that... | |
 | 1860 - 894 pages
...during that time of the year when food was scarcest on the ground, but ripe and ready on certain trees ; they would also rear more young which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. The best climbers would escape the tigers, the worst would be rigidly destroyed. * By D:ir\vin and Wallace,... | |
 | 1863 - 584 pages
...and would tend to live longer, and to survive during the time of the year when the food was scarcest; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. The less scansorial ones would be rigidly destroyed. The consequence would be, that the lions would be transformed... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1863 - 864 pages
...tend to live longer, and to survive during that time of the year when binls or fruits wore scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. Were the Lemurs to be reduced to this insect-food, those individuals less plastic than the incipient... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1863 - 874 pages
...tend to live longer, and to survive during that time of the year when birds or fruits were scarcest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities. Were the Lemurs to bo reduced to this insect-food, those individuals less plastic than the incipient... | |
 | 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...causes in a 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... | |
 | 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...causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect, and adapt the form of the fox or dog to the catching of hares instead of rabbits, than that... | |
 | 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...causes in a thousand generations would produce a marked effect, and adapt the form of the fox or dog to the catching of hares instead of rabbits, than that... | |
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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... 
