...understand. "Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life." One of the most interesting products of the process of adaptive radiation is the phenomenon known as...

...can. Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Since variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, could not other variations useful in some...

...plastic. Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred,...

..."[l]et it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life" (Origin 130). It is in the phrase "mutual relations" that an ethical dimension lurking in The Origin...

...(7) Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. [. . .] Let it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single introduced tree or mammal has been...

...plastic. Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred,...

...plastic. Let it lie borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred,...

...plastic. Let it be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life. Can it, then, be thought improbable, seeing that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred,...

...misseltoe, and that these had been produced perfect as we now see them; but this assumption seenis to me to be no explanation, for it leaves the case...physical conditions of life, untouched and unexplained. It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification...

...natural selection (Pinker and Bloom 1992, 454ff.). As Darwin said, without natural selection, we leave "the coadaptations of organic beings to each other...physical conditions of life, untouched and unexplained" (1859, 4). Human language certainly does have the marks of an adaptation; it is a highly complex capacity....