The Foundations of Zoölogy

✍ Scribed by William Keith Brooks

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presents a series of lectures from the 1800's which show that life is a response to the order of nature. Includes lectures on nature and nurture, migration, zoology, and the philosophy of evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
I. Introductory
II. Huxley, and the Problem of the Naturalist
III. Nature and Nurture
IV. Lamarck
V. Migration in Its Bearing on Lamarckism
VI. – Part I. Zoölogy, and the Philosophy of Evolution
VI. – Part II. A Note on the Views of Galton and Weismann on Inheritance
VII. Galton and the Statistical Study of Inheritance
VIII. Darwin, and the Origin of Species
IX. Natural Selection, and the Antiquity of Life
X. Natural Selection and Natural Theology
XI. Paley, and the Argument from Contrivance
XII. The Mechanism of Nature
XIII. Louis Agassiz and George Berkeley