Quotes About Modification

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El aislamiento también es un elemento importante en la modificación de las especies por medio de la selección natural. En un área limitada o aislada, si no es muy grande, serán generalmente casi uniformes las condiciones orgánicas e inorgánicas de la vida, de modo que la selección natural tenderá a modificar de la misma manera a todos los individuos que varíen en la misma especie.

Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. It is known that the English pointer has been

like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food, etc., as the only possible cause of variation. In one very

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me.

Pueden los instintos adquirirse y modificarse por medio de la selección natural? ¿Qué diremos del instinto que lleva a la abeja a hacer celdas, y que prácticamente se ha adelantado a los descubrimientos de notables matemáticos?

modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.

What natural selection cannot do, is to modify the structure of one species, without giving it any advantage, for the good of another species; and though statements to this effect may be found in works of natural history, I cannot find one case which will bear investigation.

Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand have believed that species undergo modification and that the existing forms of life are the the descendants by true generation of pre-existing forms.

pero la selección natural no puede modificar la estructura de una especie, sin darle ninguna ventaja, para provecho de otra especie;

Though nature grants vast periods of time for the work of natural selection, she does not grant an indefinite period; for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to seize on each place in the economy of nature, if any one species does not become modified and improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated.

Celui qui n'évolue pas disparaît.

It was quite obvious that without severe behavior modification, this boy would grow up to be a serial killer.

Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

We were the first bank to start a loan modification at IndyMac and had a very good record of working with the regulators.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Not every change is a step forward.

the change was adjustment without improvement.