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Title: The Meaning of Evolution

Author: Samuel Christian Schmucker

Release Date: July 16, 2009 [EBook #29422]

Language: English

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THE MEANING OF
EVOLUTION

BY

SAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN THE
WEST CHESTER STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
WEST CHESTER, PA.

[Illustration]

The Chautauqua Press
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK
MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1913

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

A FOREWORD 1

I. EVOLUTION BEFORE DARWIN 7

II. DARWIN AND WALLACE 21

III. THE UNDERLYING IDEA 44

IV. ADAPTATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL 87

V. ADAPTATION FOR THE SPECIES 125

VI. LIFE IN THE PAST 149

VII. HOW THE MAMMALS DEVELOPED 192

VIII. THE STORY OF THE HORSE 220

IX. EVOLUTION SINCE DARWIN 233

X. THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF MAN 249

XI. SCIENCE AND THE BOOK 274

INDEX 293

APPENDIX 299

A FOREWORD

Before my window lies an enchanting landscape. It embraces a stretch
of open rolling country, beautiful as the eye could wish to rest upon.
The sun with its slanting rays is not giving it heat enough in these
winter months to make it blossom in its radiant beauty, but the mind
goes easily back through the few brown months to the time when the
field not far away was waving with its rich yellow grain so soon to be
food for thos