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Initiative in Evolution

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Initiative in Evolution

Walter Kidd

357 pages~7 hr 7 min read187 chapters$4.99
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Walter Kidd argues that living things are not merely shaped by their surroundings; they push back, taking initiative in their own change. Drawing on geology, anthropology, and the sources of rivers, he reads the fossil record like a detective reading a crime. A bold, questioning take on how form arises. Weigh the case for the animal's own hand.

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187 chapters

  1. 1INITIATIVE IN EVOLUTION
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. FROM KNOWN TO UNKNOWN
  6. 6The Historian a Biologist.
  7. 7Darwin.
  8. 8Geology.
  9. 9Anthropology.
  10. 10The Sources of Rivers.
  11. 11Genealogy.
  12. 12Detection of a Crime.
  13. 13A Parable.
  14. 14The Forward Way.
  15. 15CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF THE POSITION
  16. 16Three Blows to Darwin.
  17. 17Bateson.
  18. 18Two Parables.

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