 | Harry Hascall Moore - 1927 - 724 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. As a result of the struggle for existence, the unfit perish, Darwin... | |
 | John Alexander Moore - 1993 - 548 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing...room for his progeny . . . The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds — and there is no plant so... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 páginas
...of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twentyfive years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. On the Origin of Species (1859) 1964:64. 7 From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - 2001 - 356 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Malthus's theory, Darwin decided, could apply to any population, not only humans — monkeys, mice,... | |
 | Barbara Harlow, Mia Carter - 2003 - 852 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 - 2003 - 676 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds — and there is no plant so... | |
 | Elizabeth Grosz - 2004 - 330 páginas
...covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled every 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,... | |
 | Philip Lieberman - 2006 - 458 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. (1859, p. 63) The Darwinian struggle for existence is not Tennyson's vision of "Nature red in tooth... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2008 - 166 páginas
...a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny. Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds and there is no plant so unproductive... | |
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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... 
