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Charles Darwin

  • Illia Kohanmembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Consequently the whole body of males inhabiting the same country would tend from the effects of constant intercrossing
  • Illia Kohanmembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    In one country the inhabitants value a fleet or light dog or horse, and in another country a heavier and more powerful one; in neither country is there any selection of individual animals with lighter or stronger bodies and limbs; nevertheless after a considerable lapse of time the individuals are found to have been modified in the desired manner almost uniformly, though differently in each country.
  • Illia Kohanmembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    called unconscious selection
  • Illia Kohanmembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    two absolutely distinct countries inhabited by the same species, the individuals of which can never during long ages have intermigrated and intercrossed, and where, moreover, the variations will probably not have been identically the same, sexual selection might cause the males to differ.
  • tania barberánmembuat kutipanbulan lalu
    THE
    POWER OF MOVEMENT
    IN
    PLANTS.
  • nullmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."—Butler: "Analogy of Revealed Religion".
  • nullmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon
  • Kermadi Mouadmembuat kutipan3 bulan yang lalu
    little doubt about many slight changes, such as size from the amount of food,
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijamembuat kutipantahun lalu
    name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer. As yet, I have had no takers. (Whereas, oddly enough, if you ask an audience to name a wicked statement or action directly attributable to religious faith, nobody has any difficulty in finding an example.)
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijamembuat kutipantahun lalu
    Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea! As well as taking the axe to the root of everything that we have learned about evolutionary biology (societies that tolerate murder and theft and perjury will not last long, and those that violate the taboos on incest and cannibalism do in fact simply die out), it constitutes a radical attack on the very concept of human self-respect. It does so by suggesting that one could not do a right action or avoid a wrong one, except for the hope of a divine reward or the fear of divine retribution. Many of us, even the less unselfish, might hope to do better than that on our own.
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