CONTENTS

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Jacques Loeb
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CHAPTER I
Introductory Remarks 1
CHAPTER II
The Specific Difference between Living and Dead Matter and the Ques­tion of the Origin of Life 14
CHAPTER III
The Chemical Basis of Genus and Species: 40
II.—The Incompatibility of Species not Closely Related 44
II.—The Chemical Basis of Genus and Species and of Species Specificity 53
CHAPTER IV
Specificity in Fertilization 71
CHAPTER V
Artificial Parthenogenesis 95
CHAPTER VI
Determinism in the Formation of an Organism from an Egg 128
CHAPTER VII
Regenera­tion 153
CHAPTER VIII
Determina­tion of Sex, Secondary Sexual Characters, and Sexual Instincts:
II.—The Cytological Basis of Sex Determination 198
II.—The Physiological Basis of Sex Determination 214
CHAPTER IX
Mendelian Heredity and its Mechanism 229
CHAPTER X
Animal Instincts and Tropisms 253
CHAPTER XI
The Influence of Environment 286
CHAPTER XII
Adapta­tion to Environment 318
CHAPTER XIII
Evolu­tion 346
CHAPTER XIV
Death and Dissolution of the Organism 349
Index 371
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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