The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... heredity , and the general idea of evolution as applied to human beings and the development of social theory . Because of the interest shown by his classes he has come to believe that there is perhaps a larger group which would welcome ...
... heredity , and the general idea of evolution as applied to human beings and the development of social theory . Because of the interest shown by his classes he has come to believe that there is perhaps a larger group which would welcome ...
الصفحة x
... HEREDITY A summary of existing information in three fields : ( a ) Cytology - the study of the cell . Every organ- ism begins as a single cell . The discovery of the chro- mosomes ; their part in heredity . A survey of the work of ...
... HEREDITY A summary of existing information in three fields : ( a ) Cytology - the study of the cell . Every organ- ism begins as a single cell . The discovery of the chro- mosomes ; their part in heredity . A survey of the work of ...
الصفحة xi
... heredity . " VI . HEREDITY AND SOCIETY · The folly of attempting to compare two essentials . The real question is to determine what we get via the road of heredity , what from the environment . The inheritance of physical traits such as ...
... heredity . " VI . HEREDITY AND SOCIETY · The folly of attempting to compare two essentials . The real question is to determine what we get via the road of heredity , what from the environment . The inheritance of physical traits such as ...
الصفحة 151
... heredity and claimed that children inherited the characters acquired by their par- ents . He saw the coördination of the parts of the body with the accompanying division of labor . Life appeared to him as a function of the organism . He ...
... heredity and claimed that children inherited the characters acquired by their par- ents . He saw the coördination of the parts of the body with the accompanying division of labor . Life appeared to him as a function of the organism . He ...
الصفحة 179
... heredity rather than evolution and this topic will be treated in the following chapter . In an earlier section attention was called to the rapid rate of reproduction and the interrelations of the different 33 KELLOGG , V. L. o . c ...
... heredity rather than evolution and this topic will be treated in the following chapter . In an earlier section attention was called to the rapid rate of reproduction and the interrelations of the different 33 KELLOGG , V. L. o . c ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.