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THE CHINA MAIL,
WAS DARWIN WRONG?
Natural Selection And Modern Biology
STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
CAPT. A. H. WALKER
PASSES AWAY IN FRENCH HOSPITAL
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
facture of glass; and 4 medal war Does The Platypus Benefit Over Its Relatives?cumbed to preuments as the awe of ST
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FOSSIL LEGS
The death occurred at the French Hospital at 5 p.m., yesterday, of Cap-
Arthur Herbert Walker, who suc
years. He had been for many years in the service of Messrs. Butterfleld and Swire and commanded several of their vessels.
Some years ago Capt. Walker retired Professor D. M. S. Watson's presidential address to the ant returned Home, but finally decided Zoological Section of the British Association this year is certain to with Mrs. Walker about two months to return to China. He arrived hore
Inspire much discussion. He has submitted the evidence for the "80. Much sympathy will be felt with Mrs. Walker and relatives at acceptance of the famous principle of Natural Selection to cautious Home in their and bereavement.
I understood that Capt. Walker has
It
The funeral takes place this after-|
the Monument at 5
house situated on the Peak. Replyed our protest, the Canton Gove but severe criticism. It will be recalled that Darwin wrote: "Ifwoons at Home and a daughter in i
variations useful to any organic being ever do occur, assuredly indi-Tentsin. viduals thus characterised will have the best chance of being pre-non, passing served in the struggle for life; and, from the strong principle of in-k heritance, these will tend to produce offspring similarly charac- terised. This principle of preservation, or the survival of the fittest,
have called Natural Selection."
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LACK OF EVIDENCE
additional advantage in the struggle for existence with less handsome relatives.
Dangerous Assumptions Before it can he proved that : natural selection has enabled organ- isms to survive because they have advantageous bodily structures, it is obviously necessary to know that the structures cited are advanta geous. They, can be described as
KEEPING BABY LOVELY AND WELL
Professor Watson remarks half cordially requested to communicate a century later, after considering with our Head Office at No. 25, Chiu the further results of that period Loong Street, Hong Kong; telephone, of research: "The extraordinary Central 3896.
We are ready to give all facilities lack of evidence to show that the and are also prepared to enter Inte incidence of death under natural contracts for regular supplien. conditions is controlled by small differences of the kind which separate specics from one another ....rendent it difficult to appeal to natural selection as the main or indeed an important factor in bring-advantageous only when their use ing about the evolutionary changes is known. Now it is often difficult which we know have occurred. It to be sure what are the exact uses may be important, i may indeed of bodily features even in animale be the principle which overrides all under observation. For instance, othera; but at present its real ex- that strange nammal the platypus, istence as a phenonieron rests on which has a bill like a bird, lays hour of their birth. Others make Some bables, thrive from the an extremely slender basis." He eggs and yet suckles its young, haa
also that the theory of horny plates and jaws apparently cause of much anxiety. As a rule so little progress as to be the observea evolution la "universally accepted suited to the chewing of hard food. It is the digestion that is at fault not because it can be proved by This would seem to give It an with these backward ones, and they logically coherent evidence to be advantage over nearly related true but because the only alter-toothless animals, since it would be Own Tablets are made the correc- start to go ahead directly Baby's Matinee December 18 at 4.30 p.m. native, special creation, is clearly able to masticate hard besides soft tive of their stomach and intes-
incredible."
food. Yet the stomachs of half & tinal troubles. Professor Watson considers that dozen platypuses examined by Pro-
Baby's Own Tablets are spacial- the post-Darwinians In particular fessor Watson contained no hardly designed for the use of babies have been inclined to assume that food. So are those plates and jaws and little children, and no mother when an organism has a structure really used for chewing hard food? need have
a moment's fear or which looks as if it would be useful Does the platypus benefit over its hesitation
about administering for a certain purpose it is used for relatives by possessing them? Only them to
even the moat delicate that purpose. For instance, it has much observation can prove the infant.
They are guaranteed an been asserted that flowers have been point, and in this, as in so many absolutely pure and wholesome evolved so that plants, should be other questions of evolution by specific for infantile Indigestion, fertilised by definite species of natural selection, the observations constipation, colle; they quickly insects. This assertion could be appear not to have been made.
cool feverishness, allay teething proved only by very long continued
pains, check diarrhoea, ease croup observations of the relations be- Assumptions about the uses of and colds, expel Worms. 01 tween the plants and the insects. limbs and structure are especially chemists, or post free, 60 cents NOTICE.
May not flowers have arisen casual- dangerous in paleontology, the the vial, from the Dr. Williams' ly and the plant have accepted help zoology of fossils. From the study Medicine Co.. 60, Klangse Road, BRIDGE and MAH-JONG in fertilisation from such insects as of fossils it is possible to describe Shanghai. A
DRIVE in aid of the Hong these flowers attracted not because some of the changes a species has Kong Benevolent Society will be the fertilisation by these newly at- undergone during its evolution. It held at the Helena May Institute than the method previously used but changes were
tracted Insects was more efficient is tempting to assert that these on MONDAY, December 16, 1929, merely because it is an equally good they gave the species an advant preserved because from 3.30-8 p.m. A charge of $2 will be made. Ladies who are alternative method? Or may not age.
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the plant have evolved flowers not sure whether the changes did give for a table are asked to communicate because it wanted to, as it were, the alleged advantage, unless the which the changes in compulsion or uses with Mrs. H. G. Sheldon, 25, but by external Peak Mansions, before December accident? Finding itself with flow-structure were put are known de
era, it had to get along as well as finitely. The apparent. uses it could with its gaudy
limbs are often deceptive. Tea will
be provided free of
structure, and was forced to depend instance, who could deduce from charge. Come one-Come all.
on certain insects,because these were the post-cranial skeleton of a attracted by its colours while others hippopotamus that the animal is were not.
Its limbs show по In fact, flowering might aquatic? quite well be regarded as a handicap svimming modification whatsoever; which forced the plant into
the position of the eyes only is Now what is to be Baid of fossils' with legs like those
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The Horse
Another interesting argument. of the same kind is stated with refer- ence to horSEE. The horse's teeth have gradually Increased in depth of crown during their long evolu- tion. It was assumed that, this evolution of long teeth enabled the genos to take advantage of the ex- tension of grassland :supposed to have occurred at icertain geological epochs.
Now the modern hackney horse is about fifty times as heavy as its early ancestor, so it must wear away about fifty times as much tooth. But the surface of its teeth is only about fifteen times that of Its ancestor's. So the modern tooth would have to be nearly four times as deep in order to preserve the same rate of wear;
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