Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other IllustrationsLocy, William A. (William Albert)
History
Biology and Its Makers: With Portraits and Other Illustrations
Locy, William A. (William Albert)
Biology -- History
General: Romanes, Darwin and After Darwin, 1892, vol. I, chaps. I-V;
Same author, The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution; Weismann,
Introduction to the Evolution Theory, 1904; Osborn, Alte und Neue
Probleme der Phylogenese, _Ergebnisse der Anat. u. Entwickel._, vol.
III, 1893; Ziegler, Ueber den derzeitigen Stand der Descendenzlehre
in der Zoologie, 1902; Jordan and Kellogg, Evolution and Animal Life,
1907, chaps. I and XIV. Evolutionary Series--Shells: Romanes, _loc.
cit._; Hyatt, Transformations of Planorbis at Steinheim, _Proc.
Am. Ass. Adv. Sci._, vol. 29, 1880. Horse: Lucas, The Ancestry of
the Horse, _McClure's Mag._, Oct., 1900; Huxley, Three Lectures on
Evolution, in Amer. Addresses. Embryology--Recapitulation Theory:
Marshall, Biolog. Lectures and Addresses, 1897; Vertebrate Embryology,
1892; Haeckel, Evolution of Man, 1892. Primitive Man: Osborn, Discovery
of a Supposed Primitive Race of Men in Nebraska, _Century Mag._, Jan.,
1907; Haeckel, The Last Link, 1898. Huxley, Man's Place in Nature,
collected essays, 1900; published in many forms. Romanes, Mental
Evolution in Man and Animals.
CHAPTER XVII
Lamarck: Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, His Life and Work,
with Translations of his Writings on Organic Evolution, 1901; Lamarck's
Philosophie Zoologique, 1809. Recherches sur l'Organisation des corps
vivans, 1802, contains an early, not however the first statement of
Lamarck's views. For the first published account of Lamarck's theory
see the introduction to his Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres,
1801. Neo-Lamarckism: Packard, _loc. cit._; also in the Introduction
to the Standard Natural History, 1885; Spencer, The Principles of
Biology, 1866--based on the Lamarckian principle. Cope, The Origin of
Genera, 1866; Origin of the Fittest, 1887; Primary Factors of Organic
Evolution, 1896, the latter a very notable book. Hyatt, Jurassic
Ammonites, _Proced. Bost. Sci. Nat. Hist._, 1874. Osborn, _Trans.
Am. Phil. Soc._, vol. 16, 1890. Eigenmann, The Eyes of the Blind
Vertebrates of North America, _Archiv f. Entwicklungsmechanik_, vol. 8,
1899.
Darwin's Theory (For biographical references to Darwin see below under
Chapter XIX): Wallace, Darwinism, 1889; Romanes, Darwin and After
Darwin, vol. I, 1892; Metcalf, An Outline of the Theory of Organic
Evolution, 1904, good for illustrations. Color: Poulton, The Colors of
Animals; Chapters in Weismann's The Evolution Theory, 1904. Mimicry:
Weismann, _loc. cit._ Sexual Selection: Darwin, The Descent of Man,
new ed., 1892. Inadequacy of Nat. Selection: Spencer, The Inadequacy
of Natural Selection, 1893; Morgan, Evolution and Adaptation, 1903.
Kellogg, Darwinism To-day, 1907, contains a good account of criticisms
against Darwinism.
CHAPTER XVIII
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