...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until die hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." This passage vividly evokes the relentlessness of selection but only hints that the difference between...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. Darwin's struggle-selection mechanism is hardly a passive device! Crawford and Marsh's failure to appreciate...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad. preserving and adding up all that is good: silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic an inorganic conditions of life. (Darwin 1859:84) Here, darkly outlined, we encounter the personification...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up that which is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. (1993: 162) 158 'We' can only imperfectly perceive the results of these changes; we cannot, however,...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."22 Now it might be thought that Darwin had merely clothed an entirely cold and bloodless mechanism...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life (66). 3 See eg Beer, Darwin's Plots, and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Clarendon Press,...

...slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good, silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life."110 All that may be said is that natural selection, when the organic and inorganic conditions...

...variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers,...relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. Lewontin's (1979: 6 — emphasis in original) charge follows: I call that approach to evolutionary...