The mechanistic conception of life
Subtitle: biological essays
By: by Jacques Loeb ...
Publisher: The University of Chicago press
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Biology.; Life (Biology); Biology -- Philosophy.; Mechanisms (Philosophy)
Table of contents: title: The mechanistic conception of life.; title: The significance of tropisms for psychology.; title: Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system.; title: Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision.; title: On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.; title: On the nature of the process of fertilization.; title: On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis); title: The prevention of the death of an egg through the act of fertilization.; title: The role of salts in the preservation of life.; title: Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.