The Doctrine of Evolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 308 pages of information about The Doctrine of Evolution.

The Doctrine of Evolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 308 pages of information about The Doctrine of Evolution.

Marsupials, 104.

Mastodon, 97.

Mechanism,
  organic, 14;
  living, 110.

Melanesia, 103.

Mendel, Gregor, 145;
  his law, 146; 147, 148.

Mentality, human, 233.

Metazoa, 254.

Mice, 41, 134;
  field, 139.

Miller, 293.

Mind,
  anatomy of, 202;
  human, differs only in degree, 203; 210, 211;
  embryology of, 214;
  palaeontology of, 217;
  and matter inseparable, 234-237.

Missing links, 77.

Moeritherium, a significant fossil, 97.

Molecule, protein, 22, 23, 24.

Mollusks, 81, 82;
  connecting widely separated ages, 95.

Monkeys, 158.

Morgan, Lloyd, 148.

Morphology, 32.

Moths, 67.

Mueller, 293.

Mutation theory, 146.

Naegeli, 143, 148.

Natural Selection,
  doctrine of, 116, 117, 118;
  the struggle for existence, 124, 125;
  simply trial and error, 131;
  Darwin recognized it as incomplete, 142;
  germ-plasm theory supplements, 145.

Nebula, gaseous, 84.

Nervous systems, 201, 202, 205, 206, 211;
  of worker-bee, 232.

Niagara, 85, 86, 89.

Ontogeny, recapitulates phylogeny, 63.

Orang-outang, 163, 164.

Orders, 32.

Organic, 15;
  systems, 17;
  transformation, analogies of, 43,
  a real and natural process, 55, 56, 76;
  mechanism, alteration of, 55.

Organisms,
  living, 14;
  analysis of, 16; 17, 18, 19, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32;
  characteristic early stages, 55;
  are they adapted by circumstances? 109;
  environment, 111;
  physical heritage of, 113;
  variation of, 119;
  difference, 121;
  universal conflict of, 127;
  change, 130;
  human, 32, 156, 159, 165-171;
  nervous system of, 201;
  psychical characteristics of, 202;
  many-celled, 257.

Organs, 16, 17, 28;
  of human body, 156.

Origin of Species, 136, 149.

Origination of new parts, 109.

Osborn, 148.

Ostrich, 44.

Over production, 122-124, 129.

Owls, horned, of Arizona, 45; 139.

Palaeontology, 32, 34, 73, 74, 76;
  evidence of, not complete, 80, 81;
  table of facts of, 91; 94;
  second division of evidence, 95;
  does it throw light on antiquity of man? 155;
  of mind, 202, 203, 217.

Paludina, 95.

Partulae, 103.

Pearson, Karl, 6, 7, 142, 147;
  heredity of mental qualities, 232.

Penguin, a counterpart of the seal, 44.

Peoples,
  fusion of, 178, 179;
  Mexicans, 178, 181;
  Anglo-Saxon, 179;
  American, 179;
  Indians, 181, 183, 185, 191, 192;
  Patagonian, 180, 192;
  Polynesian, 181, 182, 187;
  Moor, 181;
  Zulu, 181, 183;

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