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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution
Carl Nägeli
51 pages~1 hr 1 min read37 chapters$4.99
Carl Nageli tried to explain life by mechanics alone. His theory builds from unorganized crystals up to living micellar bodies, arguing how organization and evolution might arise from physical law. A bold, difficult attempt to ground biology in physics. A window into how nineteenth-century science reached for the origins of living form.
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37 chapters
- 1A
- 2MECHANICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL
- 3ORGANIC EVOLUTION
- 4PREFATORY NOTE.
- 5A MECHANICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION.
- 6SUMMARY.
- 71. FORMATION OF UNORGANIZED BODIES (CRYSTALS).
- 82. FORMATION OF LIVING ORGANIZED (MICELLAR) BODIES.
- 93. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. LIFE. GROWTH.
- 104. PARTIAL DEATH OF THE INDIVIDUAL: REPRODUCTION.
- 115. MORPHOLOGY OF THE IDIOPLASM IN GENERAL.
- 126. FUNCTION OF THE IDIOPLASM IN GENERAL.
- 137. DETERMINANTS: THEIR ORIGIN AND DISAPPEARANCE.
- 148. DEFINITE NOTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE IDIOPLASM.
- 159. DEFINITE NOTIONS REGARDING THE FUNCTION OF THE IDIOPLASM.
- 1610. TRANSMISSION OF IDIOPLASMIC DETERMINANTS IN LOCAL VARIATION AND IN FECUNDATION.
- 1711. ACTION OF EXTERNAL INFLUENCES.[E]
- 1812. CONDITIONS OF PHYLOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE DETERMINANTS. ATAVISM.
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