The Foundations of Zoölogy / William Keith Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, William Keith, author.

Series:

Columbia University Biological Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Zoology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1899]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89399-X

OCLC:

1100435830