On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1859

Link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/82303

Cited from

biology_ecology, earth_sciences, systems_cybernetics

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Competition
  • This coupling generates selective pressure that rewards relative advantage and drives continual adaptation, differentiation, or escalation.

    This sourceJohn Murray. Foundational text of evolutionary biology: Chapter 3, "Struggle for Existence," frames the universal competition among organisms (driven by excess fecundity over limited resources) as the engine of natural selection — the rivalrous struggle generates the selective pressure rewarding relative advantage and driving continual adaptation.

• Deep Time
  • Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) was enabled by Hutton and especially Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830–33), which established that deep time was not a philosophical conjecture but an empirical framework grounded in rock sequences and fossil records; Darwin (1859) explicitly devoted a chapter ("On the Imperfection of the Geological Record") to arguing that the slow operation of natural selection demanded the deep-time intervals that Lyell's stratigraphy had made conceptually available.

    This sourceJohn Murray. Relies on Lyell's deep-time framework; the chapter 'On the Imperfection of the Geological Record' argues natural selection's slow operation requires the multi-million-year intervals uniformitarian stratigraphy supplied.

• Natural Selection
  • In biology it is the foundational case and the source of the theory: heritable variation in phenotype, differential survival and reproduction under ecological pressure, and genetic inheritance carrying the favored variants forward, iterated over generations to produce the fit of organisms to their environments — the engine Darwin identified and modern population genetics formalized.
• Retention Under Removal Uncertainty
  • The same asymmetry governs unused database columns retained to avoid migration and breakage risk, bureaucratic sign-off requirements whose original purpose was solved decades ago, vestigial biological structures retained over evolutionary time when removal cost exceeds the small per-generation carrying cost

    This sourceDiscusses rudimentary (vestigial) organs retained across evolutionary time, the biological instance of obsolete-but-not-removed structure.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    Darwin supplies the biological analogue only: a structure retained though 'modified but not perfected for its present purpose' because it is useful, not the cost-versus-removal asymmetry or the other two domains.

    “and which has been modified but not perfected for its present purpose, with the poison originally adapted to cause galls subsequently intensified, we can perhaps understand how it is that the use of the sting should so often cause the insect's own death: for if on the whole the power of stinging be useful to the community, it will fulfil all the requirements of natural selection, though it may cause the death of …”

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