Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3)

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Author

Romanes, George John, 1848-1894

Title

Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility

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E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, L. N. Yaddanapudi,

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Heredity

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eBook-No.

37759

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37759

Release Date

October 15, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN
2. 2.II POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS HEREDITY AND UTILITY — BY THE SAME AUTHOR. — DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN
3. 3.AN EXPOSITION OF THE DARWINIAN THEORY AND A DISCUSSION OF POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS — BY THE LATE GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge — II POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS HEREDITY AND UTILITY — FOURTH EDITION — Chicago London THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.NOTE
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
8. 8.CHAPTER I. Introductory: The Darwinism of Darwin, and of the Post-Darwinian Schools.
9. 9.SECTION I HEREDITY
10. 10.CHAPTER II. Characters As Hereditary and Acquired (Preliminary).
11. 11.CHAPTER III. Characters as Hereditary and Acquired ( continued ). — (A.) Indirect Evidence in favour of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. — (B.) Inherited Effects of Use and of Disuse.
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. Characters As Hereditary and Acquired ( continued ). — (C.) Experimental Evidence in favour of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters.
13. 13.CHAPTER V. Characters as Hereditary and Acquired ( continued ). — (A. and B.) Direct and Indirect Evidence in favour of the Non-inheritance of Acquired Characters [81] . — (C.) Experimental Evidence as to the Non-inheritance of Acquired Characters.
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. Characters as Hereditary and Acquired ( conclusion [84] ).
15. 15.SECTION II UTILITY
16. 16.CHAPTER VII. Characters as Adaptive and Specific.
17. 17.CHAPTER VIII. Characters as Adaptive and Specific ( continued ). — I. Climate. — II. Food. — III. Sexual Selection. — IV. Isolation. — V. Laws of Growth.
18. 18.CHAPTER IX. Characters as Adaptive and Specific ( continued ). — (A.) — (B.) — (C.)
19. 19.CHAPTER X. Characters as Adaptive and Specific ( concluded ). — Summary.
20. 20.APPENDICES AND NOTES
21. 21.APPENDIX I. On Panmixia.
22. 22.APPENDIX II. On Characters as Adaptive and Specific.
23. 23.Note A to Page 57.
24. 24.Note B to Page 89.
25. 25.INDEX
26. 26.LIST OF OPEN COURT PUBLICATIONS ON SCIENCE
27. 27.PORTRAITS — Philosophical and Psychological Portrait Series — PHILOSOPHICAL — PSYCHOLOGICAL — Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians
28. 28.FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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