| Comparison with 1860 |
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natural selection having taken advantage of numerous, successive, slight modifications of simpler instincts; natural selection having
by slow degrees, more and more perfectly,
led the bees to sweep equal spheres at a given distance from each other in a double layer, and to build up and excavate the wax along the planes of intersection. The
bees, of course, no more knowing that they swept their spheres at one particular distance from each other, than they know what are the several angles of the hexagonal prisms and of the basal rhombic
plates. | plates. 1859 1860 |
| plates. The motive power of the process of natural selection having been economy of wax, together with cells of due strength, and of the proper size and shape for the larvæ; that individual swarm which made the best cells, and wasted least honey in the secretion of wax, having succeeded best, and having transmitted by inheritance their newly acquired economical instincts to new swarms, which in their turn will have had the best chance of succeeding in the struggle for existence. 1861 |
| plates; 1866 1869 1872 |
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| Text in this page (from paragraph 3800, sentence 300 to paragraph 3810, sentence 300, word 37) is not present in 1860 |
natural selection having taken advantage of numerous, successive, slight modifications of simpler instincts; natural selection
having | having 1859 1860 1861 1866 | | having, 1869 1872 |
| perfectly, 1859 1860 1861 1866 | | perfectly 1869 1872 |
| intersection. 1859 1860 1861 | | intersection; 1866 1869 1872 |
| The 1859 1860 1861 | | the 1866 1869 1872 |
| plates. The motive power of the process of natural selection having been economy of wax, together with cells of due strength, and of the proper size and shape for the larvæ; that individual swarm which made the best cells, and wasted least honey in the secretion of wax, having succeeded best, and having transmitted by inheritance their newly acquired economical instincts to new swarms, which in their turn will have had the best chance of succeeding in the struggle for existence. 1861 |
| plates. 1859 1860 |
| plates; 1866 1869 1872 |
| 1 blocks not present in 1861; present in 1859 1860 1866 1869 1872 | | The
motive power of the process of natural selection having been economy of wax;
that individual swarm which wasted least
honey in the secretion of wax, having succeeded best, and having transmitted by inheritance its
newly acquired
economical instinct
to new swarms, which in their turn will have had the best chance of succeeding in the struggle for existence.
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| Subtitle not present 1859 1860 1861 |
| Objections
to
the
Theory
of
Natural
Selection
as
applied
to
Instincts:
Neuter
and
Sterile
Insects
.
1866 1869 1872 |
|
It has been objected to the foregoing view
on
the origin of
instinct | instinct 1861 | | instincts 1866 1869 1872 |
| seems 1861 1866 | | rests 1869 1872 |
| to rest 1861 1866 | to rest 1869 1872 |
| both 1861 1866 1869 | | the 1872 |
| instinct 1861 1866 1869 | | instincts 1872 |
| the last 1861 1866 1869 | | a previous 1872 |
| away 1861 1866 1869 |
| with its beak 1872 |
| into 1861 1866 1869 | | at 1872 |
| each slight variation of beak, 1861 1866 |
| all the slight individual variations in the shape of the beak, which were 1869 1872 |
| seeds, 1861 1866 | | the seeds, 1869 1872 |
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