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Title: Evolution in Modern Thought

Author: Ernst Haeckel
J. Arthur Thomson
August Weismann

Release Date: August 29, 2007 [EBook #22430]

Language: English

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EVOLUTION IN MODERN

THOUGHT

BY HAECKEL, THOMSON, WEISMANN

AND OTHERS

THE MODERN LIBRARY

PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK

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CONTENTS

I DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS

J. Arthur Thomson, Professor of Natural History in the University of
Aberdeen

II _The Selection Theory_

August Weismann, Professor of Zoology in the University of
Freiburg (Baden)

III HEREDITY AND VARIATION IN MODERN LIGHTS

W. Bateson, Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge

IV "THE DESCENT OF MAN"

G. Schwalbe, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Strassburg

V CHARLES DARWIN AS AN ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ernst Haeckel, Professor of Zoology in the University of Jena

VI MENTAL FACTORS IN EVOLUTION

C. Lloyd Morgan, Professor of Psychology at University College,
Bristol

VII THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONCEPTION OF EVOLUTION ON MODERN PHILOSOPHY

H. Hoeffding, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Copenhagen

VIII THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Rev. P. H. Waggett

IX DARWINISM AND HISTORY

J. B. Bury, Regious Professor of Modern History in the University
of Cambridge

X DARWINISM AND SOCIOLOGY

C. Bougle, Professor of Social Philosophy in the University of
Toulouse, and Deputy-Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris

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EVOLUTION