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The Foot-prints of the Creator
Hugh Miller and Louis Agassiz
In an ancient fish fossil, the Asterolepis of Stromness, Hugh Miller found a challenge to easy theories of development. He reads the record of early life in the old red sandstone with a stonemason's eye and a storyteller's flair. A classic of popular geology and vigorous debate. Trace the earliest traces of life through the rocks with a master.
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22 chapters
- 1THE FOOT-PRINTS OF THE CREATOR: OR, THE ASTEROLEPIS OF STROMNESS.
- 2TO SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY EGERTON, BART. M.P., F.R.S. G.S.
- 3TO THE READER.
- 4HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OF “OLD RED SANDSTONE” AND “FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR.”
- 5CONTENTS
- 6LIST OF WOOD-CUTS
- 7STROMNESS AND ITS ASTEROLEPIS. THE LAKE OF STENNIS.
- 8THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
- 9THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE ASTEROLEPIS. ITS FAMILY.
- 10CEREBRAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARLIER VERTEBRATA. ITS APPARENT PRINCIPLE.
- 11THE ASTEROLEPIS, ITS STRUCTURE, BULK, AND ASPECT.
- 12FISHES OF THE SILURIAN ROCKS—UPPER AND LOWER. THEIR RECENT HISTORY, ORDER, AND SIZE.
- 13HIGH STANDING OF THE PLACOIDS.—OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.
- 14THE PLACOID BRAIN. EMBRYONIC CHARACTERISTICS NOT NECESSARILY OF A LOW ORDER.
- 15THE PROGRESS OF DEGRADATION. ITS HISTORY.
- 16EVIDENCE OF THE SILURIAN MOLLUSCS—OF THE FOSSIL FLORA. ANCIENT TREE.
- 17SUPERPOSITION NOT PARENTAL RELATION. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE.
- 18LAMARCKIAN HYPOTHESIS OF THE ORIGIN OF PLANTS. ITS CONSEQUENCES.
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