Re: Darwin tells us his intent with Natural Selection

On Sep 30, 3:21 pm, Raving <raving.loo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 30, 7:24 am, richardalanforr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



On 30 Sep, 10:01, backspace <sawireless2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"...If a working ant or other neuter insect had been an ordinary
animal, I should have unhesitatingly assumed that all its characters
had been slowly acquired through natural selection; namely, by
individuals having been born with slight profitable modifications,
which were inherited by the offspring, and that these again varied and
again were selected, and so
onwards...."

".. Natura non facit saltum .." - Nature never moves in leaps

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if
useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark
its relation to man's power of selection..." - The phrase Wikipedia
misquoted.

From these quotes we formulate what Darwin said in an attempt at

understanding his will or motive with "natural selection".

Traits in a species are slowly acquired by individuals being born with
slight profitable modifications in each successive generation until we
have a better and more improved species transforming into a new
species. The process where each slight useful variation is preserved
as the ape species gradually transformed into the human species I have
termed natural selection in order to compare its powers of conscious
selection to man's ability to consciously select.

Welcome to the 19th Century

Now why not catch up on the next century and a half of development in
evolutionary theory?

You do so by a process called "education".

Ok.

".. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 - April
16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist,
cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two
generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and
Charles Darwin. Darwin himself, in his foreword to the 6th edition of
the Origin of Species, credited Aristotle with foreshadowing the
concept of natural selection but also stated that "the first author
who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was
Buffon". ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc%2C_Comte_de_Buffon

'French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author.'
Hmm .. A true renaissance man.

I wonder what else is suggested, here ? ...



RF

Seems as if you have taken the 18th century for granted, RF. So much
for 'education'.

I wonder what else is suggested, here ? ...

So what are you suggesting? That I am unaware of Lamarck's work?

How do you infer that from this post?

RF

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