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Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II
August Weismann and Charles Darwin
Does a caterpillar's family tree match the butterfly's, and what about other insect orders? The second volume of August Weismann's descent studies pushes into larval relationships and wider comparisons, with detailed plates. Demanding and precise, it completes a landmark of nineteenth-century evolutionary biology. For the serious reader tracing the roots of genetics.
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22 chapters
- 1STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT
- 2I. Larva and Imago vary in Structure independently of each other.
- 3II. Does the Form-relationship of the Larva coincide with that of the Imago?
- 4III. Incongruences in other Orders of Insects.
- 5IV. Summary and Conclusion.
- 6APPENDIX I.
- 7APPENDIX II.
- 8EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.
- 9STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT. Part III. ON THE FINAL CAUSES OF TRANSFORMATION.
- 10III. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MEXICAN AXOLOTL INTO AMBLYSTOMA.
- 11INTRODUCTION.
- 12EXPERIMENTS.
- 13Postscript.
- 14Addendum.
- 15IV. ON THE MECHANICAL CONCEPTION OF NATURE.
- 16INTRODUCTION.
- 17I. Are the Principles of the Selection Theory Mechanical?
- 18II. Mechanism and Teleology.
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