Evolution and Adaptation

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTATION

CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION

CHAPTER III THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION ( Continued )

CHAPTER IV DARWIN'S THEORIES OF ARTIFICIAL AND OF NATURAL SELECTION

CHAPTER V THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION ( Continued )

CHAPTER VI DARWIN'S THEORY OF SEXUAL SELECTION

CHAPTER VII THE INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS AS A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION

CHAPTER VIII CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS VARIATION AND HEREDITY

CHAPTER IX EVOLUTION AS THE RESULT OF EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS

CHAPTER X THE ORIGIN OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ADAPTATIONS

CHAPTER XI TROPISMS AND INSTINCTS AS ADAPTATIONS

CHAPTER XII SEX AS AN ADAPTATION

CHAPTER XIII SUMMARY AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

INDEX

Title: Evolution and Adaptation

Author: Thomas Hunt Morgan

Language: English

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EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION


 


EVOLUTION
AND ADAPTATION
BY
THOMAS HUNT MORGAN, Ph.D.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1908
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1903,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1903. Reprinted January, 1908.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO
Professor William Keith Brooks
AS A TOKEN OF SINCERE ADMIRATION AND RESPECT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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