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| 34077 | And that later dark scales shall appear at the exact spots to which the midrib must be prolonged? |
| 34077 | But is it on that account necessarily wrong? |
| 34077 | But it may be that Spencer''s assumption is the_ simpler_ one? |
| 34077 | But the question remains, Why is this the fact? |
| 34077 | Can not its fundamental ideas still be quite correct, and it itself therefore perfectly justified as a means of further progress? |
| 34077 | Following the precedent of Waagen and Neumayr, Scott sharply discriminates between the inconstant vacillating variations which it is supposed[?] |
| 34077 | For who can say precisely how large this number is? |
| 34077 | How is it that the useful variations were always present here? |
| 34077 | Now in what shall this process consist, if not in a modification of the constitution of the germ? |
| 34077 | Now what does this mean? |
| 34077 | Now what is it that has put so many genera of forest- butterflies and no others into positions where they could acquire this resemblance to leaves? |
| 34077 | Or whether it is on the increase or on the decrease? |
| 34077 | Or, suppose that they had really appeared, but occurred only in individuals, or in a small percentage of individuals? |
| 34077 | Suppose that the useful colors had not{ 27} appeared at all, or had not appeared at the right places? |
| 34077 | Surely my critics can not be ignorant of the prominent part which imagination has recently played in the exactest of all natural sciences-- physics? |
| 34077 | The question arises, therefore, Have the principles just developed any claim to validity in the explanation of_ qualitative_ modifications? |
| 34077 | Was it directive formative laws? |
| 34077 | Where are the formative laws in such cases? |
| 34077 | Where, for example, are the fossil remains{ 76} of the rejected individuals in the line of the Horses? |
| 34077 | Why? |
| 38584 | Although difficult to investigate in their precise economy, it is extremely probable( may I not say, certain?) |
| 38584 | And hence we arrive at the question, is this so? |
| 38584 | But how, it may be asked, does this_ primary adaptation_ to external conditions affect the question of specific development? |
| 38584 | But how, it will be asked, can this be? |
| 38584 | But what do these facts indicate? |
| 38584 | But what does this prove, except that their capacity for advancement has a slightly wider compass than that of their allies? |
| 38584 | But what, it may be inquired, is this great primary truth which the monomial system tends to violate? |
| 38584 | But, what are the differences displayed? |
| 38584 | But, what would be the many results of a diminution in the level of our imaginary range? |
| 38584 | Can we therefore do so? |
| 38584 | Hence our first stipulation, that of_ sufficient time_, is satisfied; and what is the result? |
| 38584 | Taking the preceding considerations into account, the question will perhaps arise,--How then is a genus to be defined? |
| 38584 | The only questions which would then appear immediately to suggest themselves, are: Under what circumstances do they principally fluctuate? |
| 38584 | The question therefore arises,--Is it possible for them to_ be_ so joined? |
| 38584 | The question therefore naturally suggests itself,--Is this in harmony with what we see; or, in other words, is it consistent with experience, or not? |
| 38584 | The whole problem, in that case, does in effect resolve itself to this,--Where, and how, are the lines of demarcation to be drawn? |
| 38584 | and how can they be so well acknowledged, either in principle or practice, as through the medium of a binomial nomenclature? |
| 38584 | and why should it happen that organs which are apparently so necessary as a medium of subsistence, should be subject to inconstancy? |
| 38584 | obscuroguttatus_ has adopted, since its first arrival from more northern latitudes over an unbroken[38] continent? |
| 38584 | yet what naturalist_ now_ can draw an exact line of demarcation between them? |
| 44582 | Apart from interferences of this class, are there any that may be reasonably invoked as modifying the course of inheritance? |
| 44582 | Are we not then on safer ground in regarding the fixity of our species as a property inherent in its own nature and constitution? |
| 44582 | As the collector passes from the plains to the Alpine region, how will he find the transition from one form to the other effected? |
| 44582 | But is that what we do find? |
| 44582 | But whence come the new dominants? |
| 44582 | But will such analysis cover all or even most of the ordinary cases of specific diversity between near allies? |
| 44582 | First came the broad question, were the facts of distribution consistent with the Doctrine of Descent? |
| 44582 | First how did the form under consideration come into existence, and secondly, how did it succeed in maintaining itself so as to become a race? |
| 44582 | How do they become integral parts of the organism? |
| 44582 | How is it possible to reconcile these facts with the view that specific distinction has no natural basis apart from environmental exigency? |
| 44582 | How then does it happen that the body of one of a pair of twins does not show a transposition of viscera? |
| 44582 | If so, may we again make the same supposition in all similar cases? |
| 44582 | In its most concrete form this problem is expressed in the question, how does a cell divide? |
| 44582 | Is it itself a plant of hybrid origin? |
| 44582 | Is it not time to abandon these fanciful expectations which are never realised? |
| 44582 | May we suppose that some extinct wild species had them? |
| 44582 | The first question is what is_ Oenothera Lamarckiana_? |
| 44582 | The problem would remain, how is the distinctness of the two types maintained in the region of overlapping? |
| 44582 | To do so is little gain, for we are left with the further problem, whence did those lost wild species acquire those dominants? |
| 44582 | What is a living thing? |
| 44582 | What more natural than to suppose that the permanent adaptations have been achieved by inherited summation of such responses? |
| 44582 | What then are the factors themselves? |
| 44582 | Whence came all these? |
| 44582 | Whence do they come? |
| 44582 | Whence, for example, came the power which is present in a White Leghorn of destroying-- probably reducing-- the pigment in its feathers? |
| 28897 | Among animals of good blood, are there not always some which are superior to the rest?" |
| 28897 | And secondly, if they so differ, how have they become thus adapted? |
| 28897 | But can it be safely maintained that such changed conditions, if acting during a long series of generations, would not produce a marked effect? |
| 28897 | But is this the case with smaller changes? |
| 28897 | By what links can the Cochin fowl be closely united with others? |
| 28897 | Can our prize- cattle and sheep be still further improved? |
| 28897 | Can this parallelism be accidental? |
| 28897 | Did He ordain that the crop and tail- feathers of the pigeon should vary in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds? |
| 28897 | Do you take care about breeding and pairing them? |
| 28897 | Does it not rather indicate some real bond of connection? |
| 28897 | How can we account for these facts? |
| 28897 | How then could these admirably co- ordinated modifications of structure have been acquired? |
| 28897 | How, again, can we explain to ourselves the inherited effects of the use or disuse of particular organs? |
| 28897 | Is it an illusion that these recently improved animals safely transmit their excellent qualities even when crossed with other breeds? |
| 28897 | May not the early closing of a deep wound, as in the case of the extirpation of the scapula, prevent the formation or protrusion of the nascent limb? |
| 28897 | Now is it possible to conceive external conditions more closely alike than those to which the buds on the same tree are exposed? |
| 28897 | There are two distinct questions: Do varieties descended from the same species differ in their power of living under different climates? |
| 28897 | They might ask whether the half- wild Arabs were led by theoretical notions to keep pedigrees of their horses? |
| 28897 | To recur to our former illustration of the Irish elk, it may be asked what part has suffered in consequence of the immense development of the horns? |
| 28897 | What would the floriculturist care for any change in the structure of the ovarium or of the ovules? |
| 28897 | Where can Flora''s Garland be found equal to those at Slough? |
| 28897 | Where do high- coloured flowers revel better than at Woolwich and Birmingham? |
| 28897 | Why have pedigrees been scrupulously kept and published of the Shorthorn cattle, and more recently of the Hereford breed? |
| 28897 | Will a gooseberry ever weigh more than that produced by"London"in 1852? |
| 28897 | Will a race- horse ever be reared fleeter than Eclipse? |
| 28897 | Will future varieties of wheat and other grain produce heavier crops than our present varieties? |
| 28897 | Will the beet- root in France yield a greater percentage of sugar? |
| 28897 | unicorne, pubes_(_?_), and in two other unnamed species. |
| 26438 | [ 22] Is it not probable that the best fliers would escape most frequently, or would pine most if kept confined? 26438 [ 52] What does this mean? |
| 26438 | ( 4) If use- inheritance has tamed the rabbit, why are the bucks still so mischievous and unruly? |
| 26438 | And if use and disuse are the sole modifying agents in the case of the human jaw, why should men have any more chin than a gorilla or a dog? |
| 26438 | Are we to suppose that the effect of the_ adult_ practice of parents was inherited at this early age? |
| 26438 | Are we to suppose that the size of the human teeth is maintained by use at the same time that the jaws are being diminished by disuse? |
| 26438 | But as artificial selection has lengthened the wings in some instances, why may it not have shortened them in others? |
| 26438 | But could we rely upon the aid of use- inheritance if it really were a universal law and not a mere simulation of one? |
| 26438 | Does individual improvement transmit itself to descendants independently of personal teaching and example? |
| 26438 | Does it only transfer the newly- acquired weakness, and not the previous long- continued vigour? |
| 26438 | How could the transmission of these varied effects to offspring be accounted for? |
| 26438 | How is it that the subsequent inheritance of these effects has not been more satisfactorily observed and investigated? |
| 26438 | How then can we rely upon use- inheritance for the improvement of the race? |
| 26438 | If disuse has shortened them, as Darwin supposes, why has it also thickened them? |
| 26438 | If injuries are inherited, why has the repeated rupture of the hymen produced no inherited effect? |
| 26438 | If use- inheritance was not necessary in the case of Handel, whose father was a surgeon, why is it needed to account for Bach? |
| 26438 | Is it not a significant fact that the alleged instances of use- inheritance so often prove to be self- conflicting in their details? |
| 26438 | Is it not probable that permanent domestication was rendered possible by the inevitable selection of spontaneous variations in this direction? |
| 26438 | Is use- inheritance, then, only effective for evil? |
| 26438 | Under these circumstances how can we be sure of the actual efficacy of use- inheritance? |
| 26438 | WOULD NATURAL SELECTION FAVOUR USE- INHERITANCE? |
| 26438 | What will be the ultimate effect of plucking geese''s quills, and of the eider duck''s abstraction of the down from her breast? |
| 26438 | Where is the necessity for even the remains of the Lamarckian doctrine of inherited habit? |
| 26438 | Which effect of use does use- inheritance transmit in such cases-- the increased rate of growth, or the dilapidation of the worn- out parts? |
| 26438 | Why are not the effects of this disuse inherited by the labourer''s infant? |
| 26438 | Why is the Angora breed the only one in which the males show no desire to destroy the young? |
| 26438 | Why is there not simultaneous variation in teeth and jaws, if disuse is the governing factor? |
| 26438 | Why should it be thought incapable of reducing a pigeon''s wing or enlarging a duck''s leg? |
| 26438 | Why should the non- transmission of that which was not transmitted be surprising? |
| 26438 | Why then may not the ungainly hind- legs have been shortened by human preference independently of the inherited effects of disuse? |
| 26438 | Will such modifications be inherited by the offspring of the modified individual? |
| 26438 | Will the continued shearing of sheep increase or lessen the growth of wool? |
| 26438 | Would shaving destroy the beard in time or strengthen it? |
| 26438 | [ 24] How can increased use simultaneously shorten and thicken these bones? |
| 26438 | _ NATURE SERIES_ ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE INHERITED? |
| 26438 | in spite of disuse? |