ook at the last sentence in Chapter 7 from the first edition of the Origin. It’s a remarkable sentence. Describe in your own words what Darwin is saying. Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,-ants making slaves, -the larvae of Ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars,-not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

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Look at the last sentence in Chapter 7 from the first edition of the Origin. It’s a remarkable sentence. Describe in your own words what Darwin is saying.

Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,-ants making slaves, -the larvae of Ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars,-not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

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