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advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the
strongest live and the weakest die. 368
But the greater number of the more complex instincts appears to have
been gained in a wholly different manner, through the natural selection of
variations of simpler instinctive actions.
Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on
the cerebral organization, which induce slight variations or individual
differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our
ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. We can, I think, come to
no other conclusion with respect to the origin of the more complex in-
stincts, when we reflect on the marvelous instincts of sterile worker-ants
and bees, which leave no offspring to inherit the effects of experience and
of modified habits. 369

... it seems to me wholly to rest on the assumption that instincts cannot
graduate as finely as structures. I have stated in my volume that it is hard-
ly possible to know which, i.e., whether instinct or structure, change first
by insensible steps. 370
Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin:
Chapter III. of the Sketch, which concludes the first
part, treats of the variations which occur in the in-
stincts and habits of animals... It seems to have been
placed thus early in the Essay to prevent the hasty
rejection of the whole theory by a reader to whom
the idea of natural selection acting on instincts
might seem impossible. This is the more probable,
as the Chapter on Instinct in the Origin is specially
mentioned (Introduction, page 5) as one of the "most
apparent and gravest difficulties on the theory." 371 Fran cis Dar win
Gordon Rattray Taylor is an evolutionist author
and chief science advisor for the BBC:

When we ask ourselves how any instinctive pattern of behavior arose
in the first place and became hereditarily fixed, we are given no an-
swer... 372
Biologists assume freely that such inheritance of specific behavior pat-
terns is possible, and indeed that it regularly occurs. Thus Dobzhansky