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catalog contributor b7118682.
catalog created "1924.".
catalog date "1924".
catalog date "1924.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1924.".
catalog description "1. The nature and origin of life : Introduction ; Characteristics of livings organisms ; Structure and composition of living matter ; Metabolism the basis of all vital activities ; The principle of the conservation of energy and of matter holds good in living organisms ; Life a physic-chemical process in protoplasm ; No special vital force, and no special vital substance ; Irritability and response to stimulus ; Regulation and integration by internal secretions and nervous system ; Continuity of life ; Artificial synthesis of living matter ; Origin of life ; Principle of emergence -- 2. The cellular structure of organisms, reproduction and death : Cells and the cell-theory ; Protophyta and protozoa, metaphyta and metazoa ; Growth ; Regeneration ; Cell-division ; Continuity of cells, nuclei, and chromatin ; Chromosomes ; Reproduction, asexual and sexual ; Germ-cells or gametes ; Fertilization ; Zygotes ; Continuity of 'germ-plasm' ; Soma and germ-cells ; Death".
catalog description "3. Darwinism and heredity : Evolution due to 'natural causes' ; Darwin and Wallace ; natural selection ; Factors of evolution ; Variation ; Biometrics ; Heredity ; Transmission of factors of inheritance in germ-cells ; Weismann and 'inheritance' f mission and inheritance ; Causes of variation ; One kind of character but two kinds of variation ; Mutations and modifications ; Effect of external and internal environment ; Characters are responses ; Summary of argument -- 4. Variation and the factors of inheritance, determination of sex : Modifiability ; Johannsen's experiments ; Pure lines ; Darwin's provisional theory of Pangenesis ; Weismann's theory of inheritance inadequate ; Mendel's researches ; Laws of heredity ; Segregation of factors ; Homozygotes and heterozygotes ; Dominance ; Factors of inheritance ; Mendelian inheritance ; Reversion ; Crossing of races and species ; Kinds of mutation ; Their origin ; Factors borne by chromosomes ; Evidence of cytology ; Nature of factors ; Epigenesis and 'evolution' ; Development and differentiation ; Origin of factorial changes ; Production and control of mutations ; Determination of sex".
catalog description "5. The struggle for existence and natural selection : Struggle for existence ; Competition ; Increase held in check ; Natural selection acts like a sieve ; Direction of evolution determined by environment ; Objections ; Adaptation ; Selective death-rate ; Disease ; Effect of selection ; Ancestral inheritance ; Domestic races ; Regression ; Continuous and discontinuous variation ; Variation not adaptive ; Usefulness of characters ; Correlation ; Animal coloration ; Persistence of mutations -- 6. Isolation and sexual selection : Divergence a result of isolation and selection ; Geographical isolation ; Parasitic isolation ; Physiological isolation ; Sterility ; Secondary sexual characters ; Sexual selection".
catalog description "7. Phylogeny and classification : Phylogeny the basis of classification ; Degeneration ; Vestigial organs ; First origin of complex organs ; Convergence ; Analogy and homology ; Recapitulation not of adult, but developmental stages ; Affinity and blood-relationship ; Species and the principles of classification -- 8. The geological record of success and failure : Failure sin the struggle ; Geological evidence as to evolution in the past ; Adaptive radiation ; History of land vertebrates ; Amphibia ; Reptilia ; Aves ; Mammalia ; Ungulata ; Extinction of most groups and success of few ; Rate of evolution ; Gradual transition ; Risks of specialization ; Adaptability".
catalog description "9. Psychology and the evolution of intelligence : Simple adaptability in plants ; In animals ; Behavior ; Physiological psychology ; Mental processes correlated with physic-chemical changes ; Body and mind two abstractions ; Instinctive behavior tropisms ; Differential sensibility ; Instincts and heredity ; Associative memory ; Intelligent behaviour ; Consciousness emergent ; Darwinism and human progress ; Origin of Man from lower primates ; Conclusion.".
catalog description "Bibliography: p. [195]-196.".
catalog extent "3 p. ℓ., 3-200 p.".
catalog hasFormat "Living organisms.".
catalog isFormatOf "Living organisms.".
catalog issued "1924".
catalog issued "1924.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Oxford, The Clarendon Press,".
catalog relation "Living organisms.".
catalog subject "Biology.".
catalog subject "Evolution.".
catalog subject "QH 366 G654 3/4 1924".
catalog subject "QH366 .G6".
catalog tableOfContents "1. The nature and origin of life : Introduction ; Characteristics of livings organisms ; Structure and composition of living matter ; Metabolism the basis of all vital activities ; The principle of the conservation of energy and of matter holds good in living organisms ; Life a physic-chemical process in protoplasm ; No special vital force, and no special vital substance ; Irritability and response to stimulus ; Regulation and integration by internal secretions and nervous system ; Continuity of life ; Artificial synthesis of living matter ; Origin of life ; Principle of emergence -- 2. The cellular structure of organisms, reproduction and death : Cells and the cell-theory ; Protophyta and protozoa, metaphyta and metazoa ; Growth ; Regeneration ; Cell-division ; Continuity of cells, nuclei, and chromatin ; Chromosomes ; Reproduction, asexual and sexual ; Germ-cells or gametes ; Fertilization ; Zygotes ; Continuity of 'germ-plasm' ; Soma and germ-cells ; Death".
catalog tableOfContents "3. Darwinism and heredity : Evolution due to 'natural causes' ; Darwin and Wallace ; natural selection ; Factors of evolution ; Variation ; Biometrics ; Heredity ; Transmission of factors of inheritance in germ-cells ; Weismann and 'inheritance' f mission and inheritance ; Causes of variation ; One kind of character but two kinds of variation ; Mutations and modifications ; Effect of external and internal environment ; Characters are responses ; Summary of argument -- 4. Variation and the factors of inheritance, determination of sex : Modifiability ; Johannsen's experiments ; Pure lines ; Darwin's provisional theory of Pangenesis ; Weismann's theory of inheritance inadequate ; Mendel's researches ; Laws of heredity ; Segregation of factors ; Homozygotes and heterozygotes ; Dominance ; Factors of inheritance ; Mendelian inheritance ; Reversion ; Crossing of races and species ; Kinds of mutation ; Their origin ; Factors borne by chromosomes ; Evidence of cytology ; Nature of factors ; Epigenesis and 'evolution' ; Development and differentiation ; Origin of factorial changes ; Production and control of mutations ; Determination of sex".
catalog tableOfContents "5. The struggle for existence and natural selection : Struggle for existence ; Competition ; Increase held in check ; Natural selection acts like a sieve ; Direction of evolution determined by environment ; Objections ; Adaptation ; Selective death-rate ; Disease ; Effect of selection ; Ancestral inheritance ; Domestic races ; Regression ; Continuous and discontinuous variation ; Variation not adaptive ; Usefulness of characters ; Correlation ; Animal coloration ; Persistence of mutations -- 6. Isolation and sexual selection : Divergence a result of isolation and selection ; Geographical isolation ; Parasitic isolation ; Physiological isolation ; Sterility ; Secondary sexual characters ; Sexual selection".
catalog tableOfContents "7. Phylogeny and classification : Phylogeny the basis of classification ; Degeneration ; Vestigial organs ; First origin of complex organs ; Convergence ; Analogy and homology ; Recapitulation not of adult, but developmental stages ; Affinity and blood-relationship ; Species and the principles of classification -- 8. The geological record of success and failure : Failure sin the struggle ; Geological evidence as to evolution in the past ; Adaptive radiation ; History of land vertebrates ; Amphibia ; Reptilia ; Aves ; Mammalia ; Ungulata ; Extinction of most groups and success of few ; Rate of evolution ; Gradual transition ; Risks of specialization ; Adaptability".
catalog tableOfContents "9. Psychology and the evolution of intelligence : Simple adaptability in plants ; In animals ; Behavior ; Physiological psychology ; Mental processes correlated with physic-chemical changes ; Body and mind two abstractions ; Instinctive behavior tropisms ; Differential sensibility ; Instincts and heredity ; Associative memory ; Intelligent behaviour ; Consciousness emergent ; Darwinism and human progress ; Origin of Man from lower primates ; Conclusion.".
catalog title "Living organisms; an account of their origin & evolution, by Edwin S. Goodrich ...".
catalog type "text".