The Factors in Organic Evolution: A Syllabus of a Course of Elementary Lectures Delivered in Leland Stanford Junior UniversityGinn & Company, 1894 - 149 páginas |
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acquired character activity adaptation algæ alike altruism amphimixis animals and plants apes becomes Bible biological cell theory chromatin civilization classification comparative complex coöperation creatures Darwin degeneration degradation differentiation divergence division of labor Embryology Ennui environment ethics evil fish fittest fool-killer force forms frenulum functions gametophyte germ cells growth Hæckel Hence Herbert Spencer hereditary heredity Homology human reaction Huxley increase individual inherited insects justice Kinship Lamarck lepidoptera Linnæus living lower lumbar vertebræ male Many-celled metazoa monkeys muscles natural selection Nature's nerve never nucleus Organic Evolution Origin of Species pain parent Parthenogenesis philosophy phylogeny primitive Prof progress protoplasm protozoa pteridophytes qualities questions race recognize relation religion result sacculina sense social specialization Spencer spontaneous sporophyte stages strength structure struggle for existence THEORY OF DESCENT things tion truth variation variety vertebrates waste Weismann
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