 | 1859 - 578 страници
...constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as thcir thorter-neclced companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive... | |
 | 1860 - 390 страници
...any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them." Wallace, p. 6.) With a limited number of very curious facts, which I have not space here to notice... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 458 страници
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially ,of insects, so closely resembling the soil... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1870 - 414 страници
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as tlieir shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 412 страници
...constantly stretching it neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially of insects, so closely resembling the soil... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1871 - 434 страници
...among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over tJie same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were tJiereby enabled to outlive them. Even the peculiar colours of many animals, more especially of insects,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1880 - 338 страници
...any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them " (italics in original).1 This is absolutely the neo-Darwinian doctrine, and a denial of the mainly... | |
 | Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 страници
...occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them." Again, Mr. Wallace was the first to elaborate the marvellous principle of mimicry, the discovery of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1884 - 354 страници
...neck than usual at once secured afresh range of pasture over the same ground as their short-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them" (italics in original).* This is absolutely the neo-Darwin doctrine, and a denial of the mainly fortuitous... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1890 - 304 страници
...stretching its neck for this purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh...scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them " (italics in original).1 This is absolutely the neo-Darwinian doctrine, and a denial of the mainly... | |
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Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of the more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its... 
