The Foundations of Zoölogy / / William Keith Brooks.

Presents a series of lectures from the 1800's which show that life is a response to the order of nature. Includes lectures on nature and nurture, migration, zoology, and the philosophy of evolution.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1899]
©1899
Year of Publication:1899
Language:English
Series:Columbia University Biological Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I. Introductory
  • II. Huxley, and the Problem of the Naturalist
  • III. Nature and Nurture
  • IV. Lamarck
  • V. Migration in Its Bearing on Lamarckism
  • VI. – Part I. Zoölogy, and the Philosophy of Evolution
  • VI. – Part II. A Note on the Views of Galton and Weismann on Inheritance
  • VII. Galton and the Statistical Study of Inheritance
  • VIII. Darwin, and the Origin of Species
  • IX. Natural Selection, and the Antiquity of Life
  • X. Natural Selection and Natural Theology
  • XI. Paley, and the Argument from Contrivance
  • XII. The Mechanism of Nature
  • XIII. Louis Agassiz and George Berkeley