...spontaneously occurring was regarded as a sufficient account of their diversity. CONCLUDING REMARKS. The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly...be, we have to confess an ignorance nearly total. The transformation of masses of population by imperceptible steps guided by selection, is, as most...

...the state of skepticism and agnosticism expressed in his recent work (p. 248, italics our own) :22 The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly...be, we have to confess an ignorance nearly total. The transformation of masses of population by imperceptible steps guided by selection, is, as most...

...the state of skepticism and agnosticism expressed in his recent work (p. 248, italics our own) :22 The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly...be, we have to confess an ignorance nearly total. The transformation of masses of population by imperceptible steps guided by selection, is, as most...

...one of the foremost exponents of Mendelism, who rejects Darwinism, one might say, with contumely. " The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly...almost all the essential features, whether of cause or of mode, by which specific diversity has become what we perceive it to be, we have to confess an ignorance...

...compelled to accept this deduction, but as to almost all the essential features, whether of cause or of mode, by which specific diversity has become what...be, we have to confess an ignorance nearly total. [Italics mine.] The transformation of masses of population by imperceptible steps guided by selection,...

...the course of recent speculation on the origin of diversity in animals and plants Bateson concluded: "The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly...be, we have to confess an ignorance nearly total. The transformation of masses of population by imperceptible steps guided by selection, is, as most...

...difficulty of accounting for the origin of the new. The fountain of change, whence are its well-springs ? " As to almost all the essential features, whether of...perceive it to be, we have to confess an ignorance almost total " (Bateson, 1913, p. 248). But we also notice that some of those who have given much of...

...selfevident."—Gustav Steinmann (translated by WB Scott from Die Abstammungslehre [1908], pp. 1-2). "The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly to the central fact of the origin of forms of life by an evolutionary process that we are compelled to accept this deduction, but as to...

...fore-ordained." In this connection it is worth while to quote Bateson, our great Mendelian worker, who writes : As to almost all the essential features whether of...perceive it to be, we have to confess an ignorance almost absolute. ' A third difficulty in the way of believing in the "allsufficiency of natural selection...

...Bateson, however, in speaking of the larger question of the causes of evolution pessimistically says: " The many converging lines of evidence point so clearly to the central fact of the origin of forms of life by an evolutionary process that we are compelled to accept this deduction, but as to...