{"id":135186,"date":"2012-09-04T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/?p=135186"},"modified":"2013-04-18T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T10:24:30","slug":"un-curioso-principio-en-el-parrafo-centesimo-sexagesimo-tercero-de-el-origen-de-las-especies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/2012\/09\/04\/135186","title":{"rendered":"Un curioso principio en el p\u00e1rrafo cent\u00e9simo sexag\u00e9simo tercero de El Origen de las Especies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2006\/08\/30\/the_tm9_turf_mat_credit_toyota_roof_garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Si.\u00a0 El principio expuesto es bien curioso:<\/p>\n<p><em>That the greatest amount of life can be supported by great diversification of structure<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>la cantidad m\u00e1xima de vida puede ser sostenida mediante una gran diversidad de conformaciones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elemental, sobre todo si definimos la cantidad de vida como n\u00famero de conformaciones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed tambi\u00e9n su demostraci\u00f3n es impecable:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I found that a piece of turf, three feet by four in size, which had been exposed for many years to exactly the same conditions, supported twenty species of plants, and these belonged to eighteen genera and to eight orders, which shows how much these plants differed from each other.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>163.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The truth of the principle that the greatest amount of life can be supported by great diversification of structure, is seen under many natural circumstances. In an extremely small area, especially if freely open to immigration, and where the contest between individual and individual must be very severe, we always find great diversity in its inhabitants. For instance, I found that a piece of turf, three feet by four in size, which had been exposed for many years to exactly the same conditions, supported twenty species of plants, and these belonged to eighteen genera and to eight orders, which shows how much these plants differed from each other. So it is with the plants and insects on small and uniform islets: also in small ponds of fresh water. Farmers find that they can raise more food by a rotation of plants belonging to the most different orders: nature follows what may be called a simultaneous rotation. Most of the animals and plants which live close round any small piece of ground, could live on it (supposing its nature not to be in any way peculiar), and may be said to be striving to the utmost to live there; but, it is seen, that where they come into the closest competition, the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>La verdad del principio de que la cantidad m\u00e1xima de vida puede ser sostenida mediante una gran diversidad de conformaciones se ve en muchas circunstancias naturales. En una regi\u00f3n muy peque\u00f1a, en especial si est\u00e1 por completo abierta a la inmigraci\u00f3n, donde la contienda entre individuo e individuo tiene que ser sever\u00edsima, encontramos siempre gran diversidad en sus habitantes. Por ejemplo: he observado que un pedazo de c\u00e9sped, cuya superficie era de tres pies por cuatro, que hab\u00eda estado expuesto durante muchos a\u00f1os exactamente a las mismas condiciones, conten\u00eda veinte especies de plantas, y \u00e9stas pertenec\u00edan a diez y ocho g\u00e9neros y a ocho \u00f3rdenes; lo que demuestra lo mucho que estas plantas difer\u00edan entre s\u00ed. Lo mismo ocurre con las plantas e insectos en las islas peque\u00f1as y uniformes, y tambi\u00e9n en las charcas de agua dulce. Los agricultores observan que pueden obtener m\u00e1s productos mediante una rotaci\u00f3n de plantas pertenecientes a \u00f3rdenes los m\u00e1s diferentes: la naturaleza sigue lo que podr\u00eda llamarse una rotaci\u00f3n simult\u00e1nea. La mayor parte de los animales o plantas que viven alrededor de un peque\u00f1o pedazo de terreno podr\u00edan vivir en \u00e9l (suponiendo que su naturaleza no sea, de alg\u00fan modo, extraordinaria-, y puede decirse que est\u00e1n esforz\u00e1ndose, hasta lo sumo, para vivir all\u00ed; pero se ve que, cuando entran en competencia m\u00e1s viva, las ventajas de la diversidad de estructura, junto con las diferencias de costumbres y constituci\u00f3n que las acompa\u00f1an, determinan el que los habitantes que de este modo pugnaron empe\u00f1adamente pertenezcan, por regla general, a lo que llamamos g\u00e9neros y \u00f3rdenes diferentes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si.\u00a0 El principio expuesto es bien curioso: That the greatest amount of life can be supported by great diversification of structure &nbsp; la cantidad m\u00e1xima de vida puede ser sostenida mediante una gran diversidad de conformaciones. &nbsp; Elemental, sobre todo si definimos la cantidad de vida como n\u00famero de conformaciones. &nbsp; As\u00ed tambi\u00e9n su demostraci\u00f3n es impecable: \u00a0 I found that a piece of turf, three feet by four in size, which had been exposed for many years to exactly the same conditions, supported twenty species of plants, and these belonged to eighteen genera and to eight orders, which shows\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[467,6726,14321,14326],"tags":[14300],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136733,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135186\/revisions\/136733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}