From the Greeks to Darwin : an outline of the development of the evolution idea /
"This volume has grown out of lectures first delivered in Princeton in 1890, upon the period between Buffon and Darwin, and completed in a fuller course delivered in Columbia in 1893, which covered also the period before Buffon. Evolution has reached its present fullness by slow additions in tw...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Macmillan and Company,
1894.
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| Series: | Columbia University biological series ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This volume has grown out of lectures first delivered in Princeton in 1890, upon the period between Buffon and Darwin, and completed in a fuller course delivered in Columbia in 1893, which covered also the period before Buffon. Evolution has reached its present fullness by slow additions in twenty-four centuries. Darwin owes more even to the Greeks than we have ever recognized. The Evolution law was reached not by any decided leap, but by the progressive development of every subordinate idea connected with it, until it was recognized as a whole by Lamarck, and later by Darwin. In order to prove this, I endeavor to trace back some of these lesser ideas to their sources, and to bring the comparatively little known early evolutionists into their true relief as original thinkers and contributors, or mere borrowers and imitators." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Based upon lectures delivered at Princeton and Columbia Universities. compare Pref. Electronic access only. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) |