 | Jan Sapp - 2005 - 352 페이지
...relationships among all living things was one of successive branchings, or lineage splittings. He wrote that, "the affinities of all the beings of the same class...represent existing species, and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species."1 Furthermore, the hierarchical... | |
 | Allan C. Hutchinson - 2005 - 314 페이지
...selection in more organic terms. His most favored and most celebrated simile was the great Tree of Life: The affinities of all the beings of the same class...green and budding twigs may represent existing species At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides The limbs divided... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2005 - 344 페이지
...metaphor for his own use, Darwin's picture of evolution was of a tree of life, reaching ever upward. "The affinities of all the beings of the same class...believe this simile largely speaks the truth." The end twigs represent species, and the lower branches are former twigs that have succeeded and grown... | |
 | Franco Moretti - 2005 - 140 페이지
...by signs of hesitation, possibly because of the religious echoes associated with the Tree of Life: 'The affinities of all the beings of the same class...tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth': Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859; facsimile of the first edition, Cambridge, MA 2001, p.... | |
 | Al Ries, Laura Ries - 2009 - 322 페이지
...Life THE "GREAT TREE OF LIFE" is how Charles Darwin described his metaphor for the origin of species. "The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. . . . The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 페이지
...individuals varying in the right direction, so as better to fill the vacancy. The affinities of creatures have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. In the diagram, each horizontal line may be supposed to represent a thousand, or a million or hundred... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 페이지
...selection, entailing extinction and divergence of character, as we have seen illustrated in the diagram. The affinities of all the beings of the same class...represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each period of growth all... | |
 | David N. Stamos - 2012 - 296 페이지
...was misled by the concluding section of the chapter containing the diagram, in which Darwin states "The affinities of all the beings of the same class...may represent existing species; and those produced each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species" (129). But even here species... | |
 | Frank Forencich - 2006 - 330 페이지
...thanks to Jeri Helen for sculpting my words and polishing my manuscript. A COPIOUSLY BRANCHING BOOK The affinities of all the beings of the same class...have sometimes been represented by a great tree... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - 2006 - 23 페이지
...diagram is a visual corollary of Darwin's evolutionary version of the "Tree of Life." "The aff1nities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree," Darwin writes, and "I believe this simile largely speaks the truth." But he gives this common taxonomic... | |
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The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during each former year... 
