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The History of Creation: Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes, Volume 1 book cover

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The History of Creation Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes, Volume 1

By Ernst Haeckel Copyright 1889
458 Pages
by Routledge

450 Pages
by Routledge

450 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19 th century. Haeckel looks at Darwin’s reform of Descent Theory and its establishment through the doctrine of selection. He introduces Descent Theory into the systematic... Read more

1. Nature and Importance of the Doctrine of Filiation, or Descent Theory

2. Scientific Justification of the Theory of Descent. History of Creation According to Linnaeus.

3. The History of Creation According to Cuvier and Agassiz

4. Theory of Development According to Goethe and Oken

5. Theory of Development According to Kant and Lamarck

6. Theory of Development According to Lyell and Darwin

7. The Theory of Selection (Darwinism)

8. Transmission by Inheritance and Propagation

9. Laws of Transmission by Inheritance

10. Adaptation and Nutrition. Laws of Adaptation

11. Natural Selection by the Struggle for Existence. Cellular Selection and Personal Selection

12. Division of Labour and Divergence of Forms. Progress and Retrogradation.

13. The Individual Development of Organisms. The History of the Development of the Animal Tribes

14. Migration and Distribution of Organisms. Chorology and the Ice Period of the Earth

15. Theory of the Development of the Universe and of the Earth. Spontaneous Generation. The Carbon Theory. The Plastid Theory

Biography

Ernst Haeckel

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