 | - Book Title: Evolution and Animal Life . An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories relating to the life and ev
- Author: D. S Jordan & V. L. Kellogg
- ISBN: mw0153
- Publisher: Appleton & Co
- Year Published: 1908
- Our Price: £29.70 GBP ($58.81 USD)
- Description: Appleton & Co. New York, 1908: brown gingham hardcover: 489 pages including index, plus publisher's list: b/w illustrations and diagrams throughout, plus 3 coloured full- page plates illustrating influence of evolution on birds.
Contents:- Chapter 1. Evolution defined. Chapter 2. Variety and unity in life. Chapter 3. Life, its physical bases and simplest expression. Chapter 4. Factors and mechanism and evolution. Chapter 5. Natural selection and struggle for existence: sexual selection. Chapter 6. Artificial selection. Chapter 7. Various theories of Species forming and descent control. Chapter 8. Geographic isolation and species forming. Chapter 9. Variation and mutation. Chapter 10. Heredity. Chapter 11. Inheritance of acquired characters. Chapter 12. Generation, sex, and ontogeny . Chapter 13. Factors in ontogeny, and experimental development. Chapter 14P Palaeontology. Chapter 15. Geographical distribution. Chapter 16. Adaptions. Chapter 17. Parasitism and degeneration. Chapter 18. Mutual aid and communal life among animals. Chapter 19. Colour and pattern in animals. Chapter 20. Reflexes, instinct, and reason. Chapter 21. Man's place in nature ( post-Darwinian conception of humanity. Man's place among the other animals. Classification of the primates. Evidence from comparative anatomy of man's relation to lower animals. Special physiological evidence. Evidence from embryology. Evidence from palaeontology. Conclusions from ethnology. The earliest man. The genealogy of man. Theology and Darwinism.). Condition: corners and spine ends bumped; end papers , preliminary pages, and approx 6 pages of text throughout the book foxed: overall clean, firm and collectable
- Condition: Collectable- Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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