Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3: Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and UtilityRomanes, George John
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Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3: Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility
Romanes, George John
Evolution (Biology); Heredity
The Mutation Theory. Experiments and Observations on the Origin of
Species in the Vegetable Kingdom. 2 vols. Numerous illustrations,
colored plates. By Hugo de Vries. Translated by Prof. A. B. Farmer
and A. D. Darbishire. Cloth, per volume, $4.00.
This is de Vries' great book on a new explanation of the evolution
theory, accounting for the formation of species not by the struggle
for existence but by mutation.
Intracellular Pangenesis. Including a paper on Fertilization and
Hybridization. By Hugo de Vries. Translated from the German by C.
Stuart Gager. Cloth, $3.00 net.
This is de Vries' first important book. It is not very large, but
ought to be read by all students of botany, and also by those who
are interested in the theory of evolution.
On Orthogenesis and the Impotence of Natural Selection in
Species-Formation. By Th. Eimer. Translated by T. J. McCormack.
Price, paper, 30c net.
Another critic of Darwin who claims that organisms develop through
transmission of acquired characters.
On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. By Eugenio Rignano.
Translated by Basil C. H. Harvey. With an Appendix "On the Mnemonic
Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies." Cloth, $3.00 net.
Rignano calls his theory "centro-epigenesis" and is greatly
influenced by Weismann.
On Double Consciousness. Studies in Experimental Psychology. By
Alfred Binet. Third edition. Pages, 93. Cloth, 50c net; paper, 20c
net.
"A most valuable contribution to this important subject which none
of its students can afford to leave unread."--_Public Opinion._
The Psychic Life of Micro-Organisms. By Alfred Binet. Authorized
translation. Pages, xii, 120. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
"He fortifies his theory by such a wealth of exact observation and
experiments that the reader who follows his demonstration carefully
can hardly fail of conviction."--_New York Tribune._
The Psychology of Reasoning. By Alfred Binet. Translated from the
second French edition by Adam Gowans Whyte, B.Sc. Pages, 191. Cloth,
75c net; paper, 30c net.
"Like everything that Dr. Binet writes, the subject is stated and
expounded lucidly."--_The Lancet._
The Diseases of Personality. By Théodule Ribot. Authorized
translation. Fourth edition. Pages, 157. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c.
Contents: Introduction, Consciousness; Organic Disorders; Affective
Disorders; Diseases of the Intellect; Dissolution of Personality.
The Diseases of the Will. By Théodule Ribot. Authorized translation.
Third edition. Pages, vi, 121. Cloth, 75c net; paper, 30c net.
Contains chapters on impairments of the will and of voluntary
attention, the realm of caprices, and extinction of the will.
Essay on the Creative Imagination. By Théodule Ribot. Translated
from the French by A. H. N. Baron, Fellow in Clark University. Cloth,
gilt top. Pages, 357. $1.75 net.
The motor nature of the constructive imagination.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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