The struggle for life in natural selection acts with as much selective power as does the will of man in artificial selection. The latter, however, acts according to a plan and consciously, the former without a plan and unconsciously.


Translated by Edwin Ray Lankester, The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its, Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes (Volume 1) (4th edition)

Ernst Haeckel Quotes

The struggle for life in natural selection acts with as much selective power as does the will of man in artificial selection. The latter, however,...

The struggle for life in natural selection acts with as much selective power as does the will of man in artificial selection. The latter, however,...

The struggle for life in natural selection acts with as much selective power as does the will of man in artificial selection. The latter, however,...

The struggle for life in natural selection acts with as much selective power as does the will of man in artificial selection. The latter, however,...