constantly-recurrent

Updated: May 27, 2025

In the preservation of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurrent Struggle for Existence, we see the most powerful and ever-acting means of selection. The struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high geometrical ratio of increase which is common to all organic beings.

Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

In the preservation of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurrent Struggle for Existence, we see the most powerful and ever-acting means of selection. The struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high geometrical ratio of increase which is common to all organic beings.

Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection : or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)