Essays in philosophical biology
By: by William Morton Wheeler; selected by Professor G. H. Parker.
Contributors: Parker, George Howard, 1864-1955, ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Biology.; Biology -- Philosophy.
Notes: "Literature" at end of chapter VII.
Table of contents: title: William Morton Wheeler; title: The anti-colony as an organism; title: Jean-Henri Fabre; title: On instincts; title: The termitodoxa, or biology and society; title: The organization of research; title: The dry-rot of our academic biology; title: Emergent evolution and the development of societies; label: Carl Akeley's early work and environment
title: Carl Akeley's early work and environment; title: Present tendencies in biological theory; title: Hopes in the biological sciences; title: Some attractions of the field study of ants; title: Animal societies.