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On The Survival of the Fittest
2006-7-31  作者:孙有中  阅读:  

    Owing to this struggle [for existence], variations, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if they be in any degree profitable to the individuals of a species, in their infinitely complex relations to other organic beings and to their physical conditions of life, will tend to the preservation of such individuals, and will generally be inherited by the offspring. The offspring, also, will thus have a better chance of surviving, for, of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark its relation to man’s power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr.Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient....

    A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product. Hence, as more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must in every case be a struggle for existence, either one individual with another of the same species, or with the individuals of distinct species, or with the physical conditions of life. It is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food, and no prudential restraint from marriage. Although some species may be now increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them.

    There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny....The elephant is reckoned the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old, and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval, and surviving till one hundred years old; if this be so, after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive descended from the first pair. ....

    Can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.

    论适者生存

    由于生存斗争的需要,对于某一物种的个体来说,任何变异,无论多么细微,也无论出于何故,只要在任何程度上有利于(与其它生物以及生活的物理条件处于无限复杂关系中的)这些个体,都将有助于这些个体的保存,且通常为其后代所继承。而这些后代也因此将有更好的机会生存下来,因为在任何物种的周期性出生的大量个体之中,仅有少数能够生存。为了有别于人工选择,我用自然选择这个术语来指称这一原理,即:每一种细微的变异,只要有用,就被保存下来。不过,赫伯特?斯宾塞先生经常采用的适者生存这一术语更为确切,有时也同样适用。

    一切生物均倾向于快速增加,由此必然导致生存斗争。每一种生物在其自然的一生中

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