 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Lmnœus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1895 - 202 páginas
...living things, for, as Darwin points out, " even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate in less than .a thousand years there would literally not be standing-room 73 for his progeny." And in this struggle the destructive agencies of nature intervene.... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - 1895 - 638 páginas
...68,122.318,582.951,682.301,000.000,000.000,000. " Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. . . . The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals,... | |
 | George Francis Millin - 1896 - 204 páginas
...would soon be covered by a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing room for his progeny." There has consequently been perpetual struggle for existence, and it is just because only the strongest... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 408 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 406 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnaus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 494 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years; and at this rate, in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds... | |
 | 1898 - 908 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at. this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing-room for his progeny. . . . The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals,... | |
 | George Gore - 1899 - 604 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate in less than a thousand years there would literally not be standingroom for his progeny " (Darwin). The same may be truly said of a multitude of different kinds... | |
 | Thomas George Gentry - 1900 - 532 páginas
...them. Slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and should he go on at this rate for a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. It has been calculated that, if an annual plant produced only two seeds, and their seedlings next year... | |
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There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at... 
