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Evolution and adaptation / by Thomas Hunter Morgan, Ph. D.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945, author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology).
- Adaptation (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 470 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations, charts.
- Place of Publication:
- The Macmillan company ;
- Contents:
- The problem of adaptation.
- The theory of evolution.
- Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.
- Darwin's theory of sexual selection.
- The inheritance of acquired characters.
- Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.
- Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.
- The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.
- Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.
- Sex as an adaptation.
- Summary and general conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
- OCLC:
- 1113917300
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