The Factors in Organic Evolution: a Syllabus of a Course of Elementary ...
The Factors in Organic Evolution: a Syllabus of a Course of Elementary ...
Jordan David Starr
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Else would affect all creatures alike. Environment can only affect the individual as it stimulates, limits, or diminishes its functional activity. Similarly medicine accomplishes nothing, except through effect on func- tional activity. Superiority of man to environment. " Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes ; they were men that stood alone." — Lowell. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google LECTURE XXIV. Natural Selection. Darwin's phrase synonymous with Spencer's term, *' S...urvival of the fittest/' in the struggle for existence. Fittest under the peculiar conditions. Nature no respecter of persons. Not necessarily best or most specialized. But so in long run ; through human reaction. Illustration of a swimmer lost through help- fulness. In long run he who brings sunshine and freedom to others receives sunshine and freedom from others. " With much the same result as that which the farmer obtains by selecting his seed corn, the gardener l)y thinning out his beds, or the cattle raiser by sell- ing off his roughest calves for veal, Nature is at work on an inconceivably great scale, thinning out the least perfect individuals of each species." — Bergen.
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