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BIOLOGY COMES OF AGE !T Is A FAMous TITLE, and one should read it through with a stiff upper lip: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; or} The Survivat of the Filtest in the Struggle for Life. But is there any "great book" about which one secretly feels so guilty? Is there any fundamental scientific generalization which came into the world in so unassuming a guise? So ordinary is the language that it almost seems as if we could be in the midst of reading a lay sermon on self-help in nature. All the proverbs on profit and loss are there, from pulpit and from countinghouse-On many a mickle making a muckle: "Natural selection acts only by the preservation and accumulation of small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being"; On the race being to the swift: "The less fleet ones would be rigidly destroyed"; On progress through competition: "Rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each arganie being"; On success: "But success will often depend on the males having special weapons, or means of defence, or charms; and a sl

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN