The mechanistic conception of life ; biological essays.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1912]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The mechanistic conception of life
  • The significance of tropisms for psychology
  • Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system
  • Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision
  • On some facts and principles of physiological morphology
  • On the nature of the process of fertilization
  • On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis)--The prevention of the death of the egg through the act of fertilization
  • The role of salts in the preservation of life
  • Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals.