NATURAL SELECTION v. ADAPTATION. 



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Hence evolution by protoplasmic adaptation to the environment has 

 replaced the origin of species by means of natural selection.* 



* As "Evolution by Adaptation," or, as I would call it, " The True Darwinism," 

 has been credited to me, I beg to transfer the conception to its right owner — Darwin 

 himself. It is his alternative to the theory of Natural Selection. All I have done was 

 to collect recorded cases of adaptation, observe, and make experiments ; and then, after 

 :3ome fifteen years, to publish the results in the books mentioned. 



