“ Natural selection will not necessarily lead to absolute perfection ”
Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species (1859). copy citation
| Author | Charles Darwin |
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| Source | On The Origin of Species |
| Topic | perfection selection |
| Date | 1859 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2009/2009-h/2009-h.htm |
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“For in the larger country there will have existed more individuals, and more diversified forms, and the competition will have been severer, and thus the standard of perfection will have been rendered higher. Natural selection will not necessarily lead to absolute perfection; nor, as far as we can judge by our limited faculties, can absolute perfection be everywhere predicated.
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, "Natura non facit saltum."”
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