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The Last Link Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man

By Ernst Haeckel

2020-05-21 14:54:08

At the end of the nineteenth century, the age of 'natural science,' the department of knowledge that has made most progress is zoology. From zoology has arisen the study of transformism, which now dominates the whole of biology. Lamarck laid its fou ... Read more
At the end of the nineteenth century, the age of 'natural science,' the department of knowledge that has made most progress is zoology. From zoology has arisen the study of transformism, which now dominates the whole of biology. Lamarck laid its foundation in 1809, and forty years ago Charles Darwin obtained for it a recognition which is now universal. It is not my task to repeat the well-known principles of Darwinism. I am not concerned to explain the scientific value of the whole theory of descent. The whole of our biological study is pervaded by it. No general problem in zoology and botany, in anatomy and physiology, can be discussed without the question arising, How has this problem originated? What are the real causes of its development? Less

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File size392.792 KB
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PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1330129241
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Ernst Haeckel
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described...

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