Evolution and adaptation
By: by Thomas Hunter Morgan, Ph. D.
Publisher: The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd.
Published: 1903
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Adaptation (Biology)
Table of contents: title: The problem of adaptation.; title: The theory of evolution.; title: Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.; title: Darwin's theory of sexual selection.; title: The inheritance of acquired characters.; title: Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.; title: Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.; title: The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.; title: Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.; title: Sex as an adaptation.; title: Summary and general conclusions.