...characterised. This principle of preservation I have called, for the sake of brevity, natural selection ; and it leads to* the improvement of each creature in relation...to its organic and inorganic conditions of life." — Origin of Species, chap. iv.,p. 127. In the introduction the author gives the 'summary and application...

...individuals thus characterised.wjll have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life,; ind from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of prcservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural...

...assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life ; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preserration, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural...

...assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life ; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce oflspring similarly char.icterised. This principle of preserration, or the survival of the fittest,...

...assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life ; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. The principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called natural...

...assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural...

...assuredly individuals thus characterised will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly characterised. This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest, I have called Natural...

...assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life ; and from the strong principle of inheritance,...Selection. It leads to the improvement of each- creature igrelation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life ; and consequently, in most cases, to what...

...assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance,...improvement of each creature in relation to its organic and ignorganic conditions of life; and consequently in most cases, to what must be regarded as an advance...

...by him strictly in the light of the individual's welfare in, or relations to, existing conditions. " It leads to the improvement of each creature in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life" (cf. Origin of Species, p. 103). had relation to the qualities necessary to securing the individual's...