 ... let these same changes cause the number of rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase; the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 5061860Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...of this would bo that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares ; his organization, however, being slightly plastic, those individuals...longest limbs, and best eyesight, let the difference bo ever so small, would be slightly favored, and would tend to live longer, and to survive during that... | |
 | Richard Owen - Extinct animals - 1861 - 552 pages
...of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more hares ; his organization, however, being slightly plastic, those individuals...survive during that time of the year when food was scareest ; they would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit these slight peculiarities.... | |
 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1861 - 490 pages
...to catch more hares; his organization, however, being slightly plastie, those individuals with (he lightest forms, longest limbs, and best eyesight,...the difference be ever so small, would be slightly faeoured, and would tend to live longer, and to surviee during that time of the year when food was... | |
 | Anthropology - 1863 - 584 pages
...plastic, those individuals with the most powerful claws, and in whom the scapular arch was most mobile, let the difference be ever so small, would be slightly...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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1863 - 874 pages
...the slenderest middle digit, let the difference be ever so small, would be to that extent favoured, would 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1863 - 864 pages
...the slenderest middle digit, let the difference be ever so small, would bo to that extent favoured, would 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... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...and best eye-sight, would be ' slightly favoured,' would tend to live longer, and survive when the food was scarcest. They 'would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit ing through it, not those which the Theory supposes were destroyed as the consequence of their remaining... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...and best eye-sight, would be ' slightly favoured,' would tend to live longer, and survive when the food was scarcest. They would also rear more young, which would tend to inherit ing through it, not those which the Theory supposes were destroyed as the consequence of their remaining... | |
 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1868 - 966 pages
...rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase : the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more...lightest forms, longest limbs, and best eyesight, let the differences be ever so small, would be slightly favoured, and would tend to live longer, and to survive... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1868 - 954 pages
...rabbits very slowly to decrease, and the number of hares to increase : the effect of this would be that the fox or dog would be driven to try to catch more...lightest forms, longest limbs, and best eyesight, let the differences be ever so small, would be slightly favoured, and would tend to live longer, and to survive... | |
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