Title: Essays in philosophical biology,
Authors: Wheeler, William Morton,; Parker, George Howard,
Date: 1939
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Physical description: xv, 261 p. front. (port.) illus., 2 pl. 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: William Morton Wheeler -- The anti-colony as an organism -- Jean-Henri Fabre -- On instincts -- The termitodoxa, or biology and society -- The organization of research -- The dry-rot of our academic biology -- Emergent evolution and the development of societies -- Carl Akeley's early work and environment -- Present tendencies in biological theory -- Hopes in the biological sciences -- Some attractions of the field study of ants -- Animal societies.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biology; Biology--Philosophy