F880.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 2d ed. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

this expression. Other naturalists maintain, with greater probability and distinctness of view, that the common bond of connection between the several foregoing cases is an actual, though partial, return to the structure of the ancient progenitor of the group. If this view be correct, we must believe that a vast number of characters, capable of evolution, lie hidden in every organic being. But it would be a mistake to suppose that the number is equally great in all beings. We know, for instance

A2202    Review:     Anon. 1875. [Review of Climbing plants]. A gossip about new books. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, 12: 49.   Text   PDF

upon them almost convincing us that the force of habit in certain of them is nearly analogous to instinct. This book contains more than 200 pages, and in lively interest is equal to that on Insectivorous Plants. Had only these two volumes appeared last year, they would have left their mark on our scientific literature. And there can be no doubt whatever they will largely influence the spread of the doctrine of evolution, which alone among extant theories is able to account for those singular

A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image

' glaukopis3 cannot possibly be taken to mean owl-faced, but can only mean large- or bright-eyed. On this point I will venture no opinion, but accepting Professor Midler's high 1 For illustrations, see Troy and its Remains, by Dr. Henry Schliemann (Murray, 1875). The figures may be taken in the following order : No. 185, No. 74, No. 132, No. 13, No. 173, No. 207, No. 12, No. 11, No. 133, No. 141, No. 165. [Plate V has been compiled from the references here given.] [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUKE 4

F880.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 2d ed. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

the new evolution philosophy. He shows that I ought not to have used the term pangenesis, as it had been previously used by Dr. Gros in another sense. Dr. Lionel Beale ('Nature,' May 11, 1871, p. 26) sneers at the whole doctrine with much acerbity and some justice. Prof. Wigand ('Schriften der Gesell. der gesammt. Naturwissen. zu Marburg,' Bd. ix. 1870) considers the hypothesis as unscientific and worthless. Mr. G. H. Lewes ('Fortnightly Review,' Nov. 1, 1868, p. 503) seems to consider that it

A4671    Periodical contribution:     Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1876. Impressions of America. New York Tribune (extra no. 36): 2-3. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews]   Text

light it throws on the problem of evolution, which has been so ably discussed before you by Prof. Morse, and which has occupied so much attention since Darwin's great work on species. Before the gathering of such materials as those to which I have referred, evolution was more a matter of speculation and argument, though we who adhered to the doctrine had good grounds for our belief. Now things are changed, and it has become a matter of fact and history as much as the monuments of Egypt. In

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hold that a man has no temporal knowledge, but what he has received from observations, whether from man or brute. He says, In attempting to trace the genealogy of man lower down in the series, we become involved in greater obscurity. ... Every evolutionist, this is his hobby— evolution, like Sir Isaac's Newton's gravitation, and Laplace's perturbation, and Herschell's centripetal, and somebody else's centrifugal. If he could prove evolution his theory was carried. Every evolutionist will admit

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and appeared before the others. Who told him this, or by what authority does he say there was a fish before a pig? We may conclude, he says, ''that all the others are derived from some fish animal. Well, now, I begin to ask him one question regarding this assertion. What will be the probable evolution next of man as he has arrived at a position beyond all his progenitors of being erect, with his face capable of looking up to adore God? He must change according to the evolutions, and will his

A1014.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals; with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. London: Macmillan & Co. vol. 2.   Text

found useful to zoologists; for it really involves a fundamental problem in the theory of evolution. The question we have to answer, is, firstly whether the distribution of plants is, like that of animals, mainly and primarily dependent on the past revolutions of the earth's surface; or, whether other, and altogether distinct causes, have had a preponderating influence in determining the range and limits of vegetable forms; and, secondly whether those revolutions have been, in their general

F401    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1876. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 6th ed., with additions and corrections. [First issue of final definitive text]   Text   Image   PDF

At the present day almost all naturalists admit evolution under some form. Mr. Mivart believes that species change through an internal force or tendency, about which it is not pretended that anything is known. That species have a capacity for change will be admitted by all evolutionists; but there is no need, as it seems to me, to invoke any internal force beyond the tendency to ordinary variability, which through the aid of selection by man has given rise to many well-adapted domestic races

A1486    Review:     Anon. 1876. [Review of Climbing plants]. Westminster Review, 105, (January): 125-26.   Text   PDF

have been developed in accordance with his theory of evolution. The little book is, however, of the highest interest independent of any theoretical considerations, and to the botanist its study will be indispensable. 3 The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. By Charles Darwin. Second edition, revised. Sm. 8vo. London: Murray. 1875