Darwin and modern science
Subtitle: essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species.
By: Ed. for the Cambridge philosophical society and the syndics of the University press, by A.C. Seward ...
Contributors: Seward, A. C. 1863-1941, ed.; Cambridge Philosophical Society.; Cambridge University Press.
Publisher: University press
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Science -- History; Evolution (Biology)
Notes: "Dates of the publication of Charles Darwin's books and of the principal events in his life": p. [xiii]-xvii.
Table of contents: title: Introductory letter to the editor from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.; title: Darwin's predecessors, by J. Arthur Thomson.; title: The selection theory, by A. Weismann.; title: Variation, by Hugo de Vries.; title: Heredity and variation in modern lights, by W. Bateson.; title: The minute structure of cells in relation to heredity, by E. Strasburger.; title: "The descent of man," by G. Schwalbe.; title: Charles Darwin as an anthropologist, by E. Haeckel.; title: Some primitive theories of the origin of man, by J.G. Frazer.; title: The influence of Darwin on the study of animal embryology, by A. Sedgwick.; title: The palaeontological record. I. Animals, by W.B. Scott.; title: The palaeontological record. II. Plants, by D.H. Scott.; title: The influence of environment on the forms of plants, by G. Klebs.; title: Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals, by J. Loeb.; title: The value of colour in the struggle for life, by E.B. Poulton.; title: Geographical distribution of plants, by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer.; title: Geographical distribution of animals, by H. Gadow.; title: Darwin and geology, by J.W. Judd.; title: Darwin's work on the movements of plants, by F. Darwin.; title: The biology of flowers, by K. Goebel.; title: Mental factors in evolution, by C.L. Morgan.; title: The influence of the conception of evolution on modern philosophy, by H. Höffding.; title: Darwinism and sociology, by C. Bouglé.; title: The influence of Darwin upon religious thought, by P.N. Waggett.; title: The influence of Darwinism on the study of religions, by J.E. Harrison.; title: Evolution and the science of language, by P. Giles.; title: Darwinism and history, by J.B. Bury.; title: The genesis of double stars, by G. Darwin.; title: The evolution of matter, by W.C.D. Whetham.