The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects - Couverture souple

Darwin, Professor Charles

 
9781410207050: The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1410207056 ISBN 13 : 9781410207050
Editeur : University Press of the Pacific, 2003

Synopsis

"The object of the following work is to show that the contrivances by which Orchids are fertilised, are as varied and almost as perfect as any of the most beautiful adaptations in the animal kingdom; and, secondly, to show that these contrivances have for their main object the fertilisation of each flower. In my volume 'On the Origin of Species' I have given only general reasons for my belief that it is apparently a universal law of nature that organic beings require an occasional cross with another individual; or, which is almost the same thing, that no hermaphrodite fertilises itself for a perpetuity of generations. Having been blamed for propounding this doctrine without giving ample facts, for which I had not, in that work, sufficient space, I wish to show that I have not spoken without having gone into details." - Charles Darwin Asa Gray is quoted as saying, "if the Orchid-book (with a few trifling omissions) had appeared before the 'Origin' the author would have been canonised rather than anathematised by the natural theologians."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1885 edition by John Murray, London. Second edition, revised.

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Éditeur
University Press of the Pacific
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1410207056
ISBN 13 
9781410207050
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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