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Henry Edward Crampton. The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER PAGE. I. EVOLUTION. THE LIVING ORGANISM AND ITS NATURAL HISTORY 1. II. THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMALS AS EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION 35. III. THE EVIDENCE OF FOSSIL REMAINS 73. IV. EVOLUTION AS A NATURAL PROCESS 106. V. THE PHYSICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES AND OF HUMAN RACES 150. VI. THE MENTAL EVOLUTION OF MAN 197. VII. SOCIAL EVOLUTION AS A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS 241. VIII. EVOLUTION AND THE HIGHER HUMAN LIFE 278. INDEX 313. I
EVOLUTION. THE LIVING ORGANISM AND ITS NATURAL HISTORY
II
THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMALS AS EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
III
THE EVIDENCE OF FOSSIL REMAINS
CONDENSED TABLE OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL FACTS
IV
EVOLUTION AS A NATURAL PROCESS
V
THE PHYSICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES AND OF HUMAN RACES
VI
THE MENTAL EVOLUTION OF MAN
VII
SOCIAL EVOLUTION AS A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS
VIII
EVOLUTION AND THE HIGHER HUMAN LIFE
INDEX
~COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS~
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES
~ADAMS LECTURES~
~JULIUS BEER LECTURES~
~BLUMENTHAL LECTURES~
~CARPENTIER LECTURES~
~HEWITT LECTURES~
~JESUP LECTURES~
~COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES~
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Henry Edward Crampton
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Among the familiar facts which science reveals in a new light are the peculiarly definite qualities of living things as regards size and form. There is no general agreement in these matters among the things of the inorganic world. Water is water, whether it is a drop or the Pacific Ocean; stone is stone, whether it is a pebble, a granite block, or a solid peak of the Rocky Mountains. It is true that there is a considerable range in size between the microscopic bacterium at one extreme and the elephant or whale at the other, but this is far less extensive than in the case of lifeless things like water and stone. In physical respects, water may be a fluid, or a gas in the form of steam, or a solid, as a crystal of snow or a block of ice. But the essential materials of living things agree throughout the entire range of plant and animal forms in having a jellylike consistency.
But by far the most striking and important characteristic of living things is their definite and restricted chemical composition. Out of the eighty and more chemical elements known to science, the essential substance of living creatures is formed by only six to twelve. These are the simple and obvious characteristics of living things which are denoted by the word "organic." Everyone has a general idea of what this expression signifies, but it is important to realize that it means, in exact scientific terms—constituted in definite and peculiar ways.
