...tended to increase more rapidly than man, while their population remained on the average constant, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest" (Wallace, 1903: 78). As in the case of Darwin, the crucial component of the theory 497 was the recognition...

...also act upon animals, and keep down their numbers.. .. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest—that the individuals removed by these checks must be on the whole, inferior to those that...

...to me that these checks might also act on animals . . . while vaguely thinking how this would affect any species there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest. (Quoted by Hayward, 1974, p. 133) Dreams and hypnagogic states are apparently fertile fields of inspiration...

...to be much more effective in them than in the case of man; and while pondering vaguely on this fact there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival...must be on the whole inferior to those that survived. In the two hours that elapsed before my ague fit was over, I had thought out almost the whole of the...

...wrote in his diary, "during one of these fits, while again considering the problem of the origin of the species, . . . there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest . . ." (Milner, 1 99 1 , p. 53). I was just plain sick. CHAPTER 4 1 . The student of learning and education...

...must also act upon animals, and keep down their numbers; While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear to me, and in the two hours of my fit I had thought the main...

...the whole increase must be cut off by them every year. While vaguely thinking how this would affect any species, there suddenly flashed upon me the idea...food, of enemies always in progress, the whole method of specific modification became clear to me, and in the two hours of my fit I had thought the main...

...in them than in the case of man; and, while po idering vaguely on this fact there suddenly fla hed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest — that the individuals removed by these cb 'cks must be on the whole inferior to those that suivived. In the two hours that elapsed before...

...population was prevented only by untimely deaths from disease, famine and wars. Wallace later recalled: 'there suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest - that those individuals which every year are removed by these causes, termed collectively the "struggle for...

...became ill again from malaria in 1858, and, while in a fever, connected his ideas to those of Malthus: "There suddenly flashed upon me the idea of the survival of the fittest." It is well known that he sent a manuscript to Darwin, who immediately recognized the similarities to...