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The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

Ernst Haeckel and Joseph McCabe

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How can a science reconstruct the entire ancestry of a species? Ernst Haeckel opens his two-volume study with the fundamental law of evolution and the record he read in the developing embryo. Ambitious and deeply provocative, it shaped how a whole generation pictured human origins. Begin Haeckel's grand reconstruction of where we came from.

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  1. 1THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
  2. 2TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH (ENLARGED) EDITION BY JOSEPH MCCABE. [ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.]
  3. 3CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5CHAPTER 1.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. CHAPTER 1.2. THE OLDER EMBRYOLOGY. CHAPTER 1.3. MODERN EMBRYOLOGY. CHAPTER 1.4. THE OLDER PHYLOGENY. CHAPTER 1.5. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION. CHAPTER 1.6. THE OVUM AND THE AMOEBA. CHAPTER 1.7. CONCEPTION. CHAPTER 1.8. THE GASTRAEA THEORY. CHAPTER 1.9. THE GASTRULATION OF THE VERTEBRATE. CHAPTER 1.10. THE COELOM THEORY. CHAPTER 1.11. THE VERTEBRATE CHARACTER OF MAN. CHAPTER 1.12. THE EMBRYONIC SHIELD AND GERMINATIVE AREA. CHAPTER 1.13. DORSAL BODY AND VENTRAL BODY. CHAPTER 1.14. THE ARTICULATION OF THE BODY. CHAPTER 1.15. FOETAL MEMBRANES AND CIRCULATION.
  6. 6LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  7. 7GLOSSARY.
  8. 8PREFACE.
  9. 9HAECKEL'S CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL WORLD.
  10. 10THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. CHAPTER 1.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION.
  11. 11CHAPTER 1.2. THE OLDER EMBRYOLOGY.
  12. 12CHAPTER 1.3. MODERN EMBRYOLOGY.
  13. 13CHAPTER 1.4. THE OLDER PHYLOGENY.
  14. 14CHAPTER 1.5. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION.
  15. 15CHAPTER 1.6. THE OVUM AND THE AMOEBA.
  16. 16CHAPTER 1.7. CONCEPTION.
  17. 17CHAPTER 1.8. THE GASTRAEA THEORY.
  18. 18CHAPTER 1.9. THE GASTRULATION OF THE VERTEBRATE.*

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