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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3
George John Romanes
366 pages~7 hr 17 min read50 chapters$4.99
Natural selection was only the beginning of the argument. In this second volume, Romanes lays out the Darwinian theory in full and takes up the questions it left open, weighing heredity, variation, and the disputes that followed. Rigorous and clear-eyed. Follow the debate that shaped evolutionary science after its founder.
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50 chapters
- 1DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN
- 2II POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS HEREDITY AND UTILITY
- 3DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN
- 4AN EXPOSITION OF THE DARWINIAN THEORY AND A DISCUSSION OF POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS
- 5FOURTH EDITION
- 6Chicago London THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
- 7PREFACE
- 8NOTE
- 9CONTENTS
- 10LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 11CHAPTER I. Introductory: The Darwinism of Darwin, and of the Post-Darwinian Schools.
- 12SECTION I HEREDITY
- 13CHAPTER II. Characters As Hereditary and Acquired (Preliminary).
- 14CHAPTER III. Characters as Hereditary and Acquired (continued).
- 15(A.) Indirect Evidence in favour of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters.
- 16(B.) Inherited Effects of Use and of Disuse.
- 17CHAPTER IV. Characters As Hereditary and Acquired (continued).
- 18(C.) Experimental Evidence in favour of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters.
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