It deserves particular attention that with mankind all the conditions for sexual selection were much more favourable, during a very early period, when man had only just attained to the rank of manhood, than during later times.
As with many kinds of fishes the males habitually fight together; it is surprising that they have not generally become through the effects of sexual selection larger and stronger than the females.
The belief in the power of sexual selection rests chiefly on the following considerations.
And these two forms of selection seem actually to have occurred, whether or not simultaneously, with mankind, especially during the earlier periods of our long history.
The views here advanced, on the part which sexual selectionhas played in the history of man, want scientific precision.
It is therefore probable that strongly-pronounced colours have been acquired by tree-haunting birds through sexual selection, but that green tints have had an advantage through natural selection over other colours for the sake of protection.
Of course the selection is imperfectly representative; but it will serve to illustrate certain effects of Buddhist teaching upon popular thought and speech.
The art of the Sagas, which is so modern in many things, and so different from the medieval conventions in its selection of matter and its development of the plot, is largely indebted to circumstances outside of art.
The selection of personages and motives is made in another way in the romantic schools, but this poem of Chaucer's is not romance.
The effect is attained not by study of the central phrase so much as by the right arrangement and selection of the antecedents; that is, by right proportion in the narrative.
Its felicitous selection of topics, and classic beauty of expression, entitle it to a high place in the current poetry of the day, and amply sustain the reputation of the distinguished author.
If the selection was to be on the grounds of rank rather than of high scientific attainments, no better one could have been made.
I think all bedrooms should have a selection of favourite books, and I do not think that novels are nearly so suitable as books of short essays and sketches.
Lamb says that Bridget Elia 'was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious library of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage.
The younger sons and nephews are enrolled in the royal guard, and the Shah is thus enabled by judicious change and selection to keep his hold upon the tribe.
In the tenth century, when the great Sabuktagin rose from soldier to Sovereign, we see the principle of selection in preference to hereditary succession practised and accepted by the nation.
This, of course, decided the selection of routes: no quadruped could cross the Lower Potomac.
In pre-industrial times when each family propagated its own unique open-pollinated varieties, a natural selection process for healthy outcomes prevailed.
Whatever the local dietary, during thousands of years of eating that dietary natural selection prevailed; most babies that were allergic to or not able to thrive on the available dietary, died quickly.
It could no doubt be improved by selection and careful breeding.
Both in the selection of their models and in the freedom of treating them they showed that good sense which was characteristic of the nation.
The selection was more difficult than may at first sight be supposed.
It is a hardy flower; any one can raise it, care only being required in selection from many varieties.
Clisthenes, king of Sicyon, in order to marry his daughter to the greatest advantage, decided to settle the selection of her husband by competition.
The tours and pas of which ballet eloquence is composed, therefore, represent a selection based on generations of careful and accurately recorded experiment in the interest of pure beauty.
With the mechanical problem simplified by the distribution of the hundred yards of drapery among forty people, there followed a sea of cavorting rainbows and prisms that lacked even a semi-careful selection of colours.
To organize an enterprise so difficult that it had hitherto defeated the whole world required a careful selectionof attendants, and I looked with despair at the prospect before me.
A selection of the best opal beads was immediately given him.
With so much to build upon, it is easy to see how natural selection may have perfected the habit.
In October he fully justified his selectionby forcing the famous pass of Roncesvalles, so intimately connected with the names of Charlemagne and the Black Prince.
Accordingly, Napoleon's selection of Lannes to command the advance guard is the highest possible testimony to his military ability.
This selectionwas unfortunate; good strategist and organiser, he was not the man the Emperor required.
The selection of this site is said to have been urged by Smith and objected to by Gosnold.
We cannot truthfully assert that we admire the selectionof his idols.
The selection of the battlefield is the oldest trick in strategy.
Mark his words:-- "Many countries are watching with anxiety the selection you may make.
This may, in a measure, account for Bob Haslam's selection of a residence in Chicago, as he helped us make the adobes, and the size of his feet would thereafter be less noticeable there than elsewhere.
A scene may be read from the Spanish Gipsy, a selection from How Lisa Loved the King, and the whole of the beautiful short poem, Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible.
Have a selection from Irving's Sketch Book from Stratford on Avon.
The others, who pretend merely to narrate, are no better; for everything cannot be told--some selection must be made.
But in the selection of documents some special predilection will have the upper hand, and, as this varies according to the conditions under which the writer views the matter, history will never be fixed.
A Selection of the above beautiful Productions may be seen at BLAND & LONG'S, 153.
Selection of Cases The selection of the children for the experiment was effected in the following manner.
The only selection was for boys who were operated on long enough after coming to school to give an idea of scholastic ability; and long enough before the present study to permit a judgment as to their improvement.
