Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These AnimalsForel, Auguste
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Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals
Forel, Auguste
Insects -- Biology; Psychology, Comparative
By E. D. COPE. 121 illustrations. Pp. 550. Tables,
bibliography and index. Cloth, net, $2.00. (10s.).
A comprehensive handbook of the Neo-Lamarckian theory of Evolution,
drawing its main evidence from paleontology, as distinguished from
œcology (Darwin) and embryology (Weismann). Discusses the “Energy of
Evolution,” and lays special emphasis on the function of consciousness
in organic development.
“Will stand as the most concise and complete exposition of the
doctrines of the Neo-Lamarckian school hitherto published. A
most valuable text-book for teachers and students.”--Science,
N. Y.
“A work of unusual originality. No one can read the book
without admiring the intimate knowledge of facts and the great
power of generalization which it discloses.”--Prof. J. McK.
Cattell.
On Germinal Selection
As a Source of Definitely Directed Variation. By AUGUST
WEISMANN. Translated by THOMAS J. MCCORMACK. Pp.,
xii, 61. Paper, 25c. (1s. 6d.).
“Professor Weismann considers this one of the most important
of all his contributions on the evolution problem....
important as marking some fundamental changes in Weismann’s
position.”--Science, New York.
“Forms the crown and capsheaf of Weismann’s theory of
heredity.”--Exchange.
On Orthogenesis (Definite Evolution)
Or the Impotence of Darwinian Selection in the Formation
of Species. By TH. EIMER, Professor of Zoology in
the University of Tuebingen. Translated by THOMAS J.
MCCORMACK. 19 cuts. Pp., 56. Paper 25c. (1s. 6d.).
This little brochure was written in reply to Weismann’s
“Germinal Selection.” Prof. Eimer argues upon the same lines as
the American Neo-Lamarckians, Cope, Hyatt, etc. His doctrine
of orthogenesis, which he declares to be a universally valid
law, has been framed to show that organisms develop in definite
directions, without regard for utility, through purely
physiological causes, through the transmission of acquired
characters, through the combined agency of the constitution of
the animal and the effects of outward influences.
[Illustration: Butterfly’s Wing from Eimer’s ORTHOGENESIS.
Illustrating the Definite Character of Evolution.]
A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution
Summary. By CARL VON NAEGELI, Translated by V.
A. CLARK and F. A. WAUGH, of the University of
Vermont. The only original account of Naegeli’s theories in
English. Pp., 52. Price, paper, 15 cents. (9d.)
Naegeli was the first to propose the general theory of
cell-formation accepted to-day. The present little brochure,
which is a synopsis of his great work on evolution, will render
his difficult theories accessible to English-speaking students,
to whom they have hitherto been almost a sealed book.
A First Book in Organic Evolution
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