Guide to the study of animal ecologyAdams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher)
Science
Guide to the study of animal ecology
Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher)
Animal ecology
The general chapters are particularly helpful.
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1907. Experimental Zoölogy, pp. 454. New York.
Summaries of a variety of experimental studies.
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pp. 472. New York.
“‘The Physiology of _Organisms_,’ in contradistinction to the
Physiology of _Organs_, ... [is] that branch of animal biology which
regards the species of animals as actualities and investigates the
reciprocal relations which adjust the balance between the existence of
any species and the natural, external conditions of its existence, in
the widest sense of the term.” p. 33.
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1907. Organische Zweckmässigkeit, Entwicklung und Vererbung vom
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1901-1907. Experimentelle entomologische Studien vom
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An extremely valuable index to environmental influences upon insects.
Numerous summaries.
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1910. Chance or Purpose in the Origin and Evolution of Adaptation.
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Death is due to differentiation and not to a “running down” of the
organism.
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1909. The Theory of Individual Development. Pop. Sci. Mo., Vol. LXXV,
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1905. The Problem of Development. Science, N. S., Vol. XXI, pp. 281-294.
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The activity of the nervous system is viewed as a _regulatory process_.
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