The History of Creation: Or the Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780367076412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 446 str.

Ernst Haeckel

Opis

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19^th century.

Spis treści

1. Nature and Importance of the Doctrine of Filiation, or Descent Theory  2. Scientific Justification of the Theory of Descent. History of Creation According to Linnaeus.  3. The History of Creation According to Cuvier and Agassiz  4. Theory of Development According to Goethe and Oken  5. Theory of Development According to Kant and Lamarck  6. Theory of Development According to Lyell and Darwin  7. The Theory of Selection (Darwinism)  8. Transmission by Inheritance and Propagation  9. Laws of Transmission by Inheritance  10. Adaptation and Nutrition. Laws of Adaptation  11. Natural Selection by the Struggle for Existence. Cellular Selection and Personal Selection  12. Division of Labour and Divergence of Forms. Progress and Retrogradation.  13. The Individual Development of Organisms. The History of the Development of the Animal Tribes  14. Migration and Distribution of Organisms. Chorology and the Ice Period of the Earth  15. Theory of the Development of the Universe and of the Earth. Spontaneous Generation. The Carbon Theory. The Plastid Theory

O autorze

Ernst Haeckel