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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?
William Platt Ball
92 pages~1 hr 50 min read63 chapters$4.99
If a smith's son inherits nothing of his labor, why do civilized jaws shrink and cave-crabs go blind? W. P. Ball weighs the evidence for inherited use and disuse, testing Spencer's examples against Darwin and Weismann. A sharp Victorian entry in the great heredity debate. Follow one of biology's fiercest nineteenth-century arguments.
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63 chapters
- 1ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE INHERITED?
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE INHERITED?
- 5IMPORTANCE AND BEARING OF THE INQUIRY.
- 6FOOTNOTES:
- 7SPENCER'S EXAMPLES AND ARGUMENTS.
- 8DIMINUTION OF THE JAWS IN CIVILIZED RACES.
- 9DIMINISHED BITING MUSCLES OF LAP-DOGS.
- 10CROWDED TEETH.
- 11BLIND CAVE-CRABS.
- 12NO CONCOMITANT VARIATION FROM CONCOMITANT DISUSE.
- 13THE GIRAFFE, AND NECESSITY FOR CONCOMITANT VARIATION.
- 14ALLEGED RUINOUS EFFECTS OF NATURAL SELECTION.
- 15ADVERSE CASE OF NEUTER INSECTS.
- 16ÆSTHETIC FACULTIES.
- 17LACK OF EVIDENCE.
- 18INHERITED EPILEPSY IN GUINEA-PIGS.
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