Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![xiii] Selection in the Animal World or by colours which conceal the various species in their natural surroundings ; and those which possess these or any other advantages will in the long run survive. The weaker, the less well-defended, and the smaller species often have special pro¬ tection, such as nocturnal habits, making burrows in the earth, possessing poison¬ ous stings or fangs, being covered with protective armour ; while great numbers are coloured or marked so as exactly to correspond with their surroundings, and are thus concealed from their chief enemies. Natural Selection, or Survival of the Fittest It may be here noted that the term Natural Selection, which has often been misunderstood, was suggested to Darwin by the way in which almost all our varie¬ ties of cultivated plants and domestic animals have been obtained from wild forms continually improved for many generations. The method is to breed large quantities, and always preserve or select the best in each generation to be the parents of the next. This method, carried on by hundreds of farmers, 87](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0100.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
