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Evolution and Adaptation
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Are living things truly built for their surroundings, or does that only seem so? Thomas Hunt Morgan examines adaptation with a skeptic's rigor, questioning easy assumptions and weighing what natural selection can really explain. Sharp, careful, and influential. Rethink the fit between an organism and its world with a great experimental biologist.
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61 chapters
- 1EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTATION
- 5Structural Adaptations
- 6Adjustments of the Individual to Changes in the Environment
- 7Adaptations for the Good of the Species
- 8Organs of Little Use to the Individual
- 9Changes in the Organism that are of No Use to the Individual or to the Race
- 10Comparison with Inorganic Phenomena
- 11CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
- 12Evidence in Favor of the Transmutation Theory
- 13THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
- 14EVIDENCE FROM DIRECT OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT
- 15MODERN CRITICISM OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
- 16CHAPTER III THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION (Continued)
- 17Conclusions
- 18CHAPTER IV DARWIN’S THEORIES OF ARTIFICIAL AND OF NATURAL SELECTION
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