Essays on evolution 1889-1907 by Edward Bagnall Poulton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2], xlviii, 479 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Claredon Press, 1908.

Contents:

Introduction: Mutation, Mendelism, and natural selection

A naturalist's contribution to the discusion upon the age of the earth

A naturalist's contribution to the discusion upon the age of the earth (Liverpool, 1896)

'What is a species?' (London, 1904)

Theories of evolution (Boston, 1894)

Theories of heredity (Oxford, 1889)

The bearing of the study of insects upon the question 'Are acquired characters hereditary?' (London, 1905)

A remarkable anticipation of modern views on evolution (1897)

Thomas Huxley and the theory of natural selection (Birmingham, 1905)

Natural selection the cause of mimetic resemblance and common warning colours (London, 1898)

Mimicry and natural selection (Berlin, 1901)

The place of mimicry in a scheme of defensive coloration (Leeds, 1890)

Appendix: A classification and index of the examples of mimicry quoted in the text

Analytical index.

Notes:

"Errata"--p. xii, 2nd count.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

663368077