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Excerpt: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

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...rwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ‘But with regard to the material world, we can at... ...ment of Learning. Down, Bromley, Kent, October 1st, 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec- tion, or the Preservation of Favoured Ra... ...ured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin 4 On the Origin of Species Contents Introduction Chapter I Variation under Domestication Cause... ... Domes- tic Varieties — Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domesti... ... II Variation under Nature Variability — Individual Differences — Doubtful species — Wide ranging, much diffused, and com- mon species vary most — Spe... ...ry most — Species of the larger gen- era in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera — Many of the species of the larger genera re... ...truggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species; often severe between species of the same genus — The relation of o...

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...h Father Forbes, the town's Catholic priest; Dr. Ledsmar, a local atheist, philosopher, and man of science; and Celia, a local Irish Catholic girl, a species of aesthete, with whom Theron becomes hopelessly infatuated....

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...eveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to be remembered somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are whimsical. Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways. (Introduction by John Greenman)...

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...lishness and wisdom, of travel and change as well as peace and predictability; but most of all, it is a story of friendship - friendship that crosses species, ages, and professions. We all could do far worse than remember in this changing world that what changes least is that which is most true. (Summary by Arthur Piantadosi)...

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...Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of huge grey bulks moving under the surface. The woods are places where chittering ...

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...A deadly comet is on collision trajectory with Earth. Will the aliens' grand plan to save the Earth's species from certain extinction succeed, or is there a more sinister reason for their terrestrial presence? 2023.2 is the sequel to 2023....

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...for example, the orbit of a comet. Adam is unknowingly selected on a short list for relocation by aliens, as part of a grand plan to save the Earth's species from certain extinction in the coming global catastrophe....

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...Prologue - A Species with Potential One - People Like Clay (In which Mobile Observer Android 126 first encounters humans.) Two - Sheep Lost and Demons Found (In which MO-126 learns that humans can be imaginative, creative, and distu...

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...starving child and a vulture awaiting on a rock, the fight for dominion of species and nations, and the sexual aggression of making love among mankind... ...ned. It was all of them. Love and marriage was a specie ** specie ? or species ? ** preserving drug induced into a man to keep him bound and limit... ...veloped a high degree of consciousness to fight his way up as the dominant species, the animal that nonetheless behaves according to instinct. If you... ...rom the non-interference of Buddhist principles. He saw all the suffering species from an aerial perspective for he was being carried around on the w... ...nd abnormal form of behavior sometimes seen in those evolving beyond their species. From the research I've done on such aliens empathy and compassion ... ...ings. Maybe they were surviving hominids. They were definitely a divergent species of animal. He thought about Songkran Festivals. All of his gra... ... the 3 million years of Australopithecus through the 100,000 years of his species (if his species was to some degree related to Australopithecus) hum... ...ng shocked or to gossip about human anomalies all which were as old as the species. * "Why aren't you sitting. You are just leaning against the build... ...being in love was a delusion that one biologically craved to propagate the species. She would say that she did not want to go through the brief illusi...

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...Lake Malawi: A fresh water lake in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The main tourist attraction in Malawi, it contains more fish species than any oth...

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... It is immortal because it lives in the archetypes found within the human species’ collective unconscious. It is immortal because it lives within ...

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...to their new home in 2105. Everything seemed to go well until rising inter-species tensions between humans and Weres led to a planet-wide power strug... ... that describe a Were's status, type and relationship to others. • Clan – Species name (example: Lupine, Feline) • Tribe – Breed name (example: Wolf,...

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...raked, cropped, atop her shoulders. Janusz, taken aback, studied her as one would an exotic species. His hands, two violent spirals, breached desper...

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...ere rather negligent when it came to protecting me from the female of your species." Therese chuckled; shocked he would bring up Candida. But she thou...

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...ct. The book of Revelations has come back to haunt us.” “This is what our species gets for wrecking the planet!” “ENOUGH,” Jack shouted. “This isn’t ...

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...an society ruled by a wise, mysterious king, an all-powerful being of unknown origin who is said to have created the world as a haven for its diverse species of people. Readily accepted and loved by all the people of Arbarron, Miranda is charged by the King with defending her new world against an encroaching darkness that threatens the peace of all who live in it. The Lif...

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...treme pressure gave the appearance and feel of human skin. The new kind of Man had to be in Man's own image and Grailem looked a prime example of his species; a little over two metres tall with a muscular looking body and handsome round face he could pass at a distance as human on any planet. Closer examination of his eyes would reveal their mechanical nature betraying his...

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...y had been genetically modified to have no arms and legs in the hope of creating a superior brain. The brain, genetically cross-mutated with an alien species of wasp brought an immunity to the diseases that had affected Man. Kept as laboratory experiments initially and suspended in biotic fluid for the first three years, the brains did expand to twice their normal size and...

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...with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become dominant in our place. (summary by Epistomolus)...

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...he end of our evolution, rapidly becoming the victims of the suicide or our species? “Little did Edwin Hubble know, when he confirmed that t... ...e. At least that’s the thinking now! “Since the Big Bang, millions of species have evolved and died out, usually from things beyond their cont... ...es have evolved and died out, usually from things beyond their control. Our species also seems to be heading to oblivion, and it’s our own fault. We... ...f saving ourselves from extinction? If so can we make a better life for our species. There were a few glimmers of hope, like when I found that there ... ...hat got me charged up to do something. But it’s not enough to just save our species. Nearly all human lives can be happier and more productive. Ashl... ...eed an African village for ten years with the same amount of money. Are all species equal? Is one individual of a lower species, like a cat, more im... ... lower species, like a cat, more important than a group in the higher human species? It reminds me of when a neighbor kid would feed mice to his sna... ...out 20 people per square foot of land and sea on this planet. Of course our species would self destruct long before we got to that number!” —“Wit... ...se it. But without that major adjustment it will soon be ‘sayonara’ for our species. “People that I admire for their ability to think ...

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...nment and had them hatched by canaries. When the new finches were born they were not exposed to any of the building materials common to their specie... ...l have the same drives? Can education change those drives and raise our human natures? Homo sapiens seems to have eliminated a huge number of specie... ...hey experience their adolescent education we expose them, little by little, to the atrocities that humans have perpetrated on others of their specie... ...he most beautiful nest. String, twigs, paper—all the things that girl birdies love. If his nest was sufficiently attractive the females of the specie... ...show his power—were his exploits powered from a self-centered, self-love motivation. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some specie... ...ying mantis bites off the head of its male mate while copulating. The male red back spider is eaten by his mate after their date. Some salmon specie... ...en they have wandered, or have been caught wandering. Is it only the desire to reproduce or the desire for orgasms? ―In our human specie... ...ame instinct. We talk about the pecking order of animals—meaning that there are more powerful animals that lord it over other animals of their specie... ... or Baghdad, in the wars of Europe, in the slums of Brazil, in the wars of religions, in the aggressive tribes of Africa, is the norm for our specie...