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TY PRESS Published October, 1916 [Illustration] * * * * * PREFACE Occasionally one hears today the statement that we have come to realize that we know nothing about evolution. This point of view is a healthy reaction to the over-confident belief that we knew everything about evolution. There are even those rash enough to think that in the last few years we have learned more about evolution than we might have hoped to know a few years ago. A _critique_ therefore not only becomes a criticism of the older evidence but an appreciation of the new evidence. In the first lecture an attempt is made to put a new valuation on the traditional evidence for evolution. In the second lecture the most recent work on heredity is dealt with, for only characters that are inherited can become a part of the evolutionary process. In the third lecture the physical basis of heredity and the composition of the germ plasm stream are examined in the light of new observations; while in the fourth lecture the thesis is developed that chance variation combined with a property of living things to manifold themselves is the key note of modern evolutionary thought. T. H. MORGAN _July, 1916_ * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I A REVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE ON WHICH THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION WAS BASED PAGE PREFACE v 1. THREE KINDS OF EVOLUTION 1-7 2. THE EVIDENCE FOR ORGANIC EVOLUTION 7-27 a. The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy 7-14 b. The Evidence from Embryology 14-23 c. The Evidence from Paleontology 24-27 3. THE FOUR GREAT HISTORICAL SPECULATIONS 27-39 a. The Environment 27-31 Geoffroy St. Hilaire b. Use and Disuse 31-34 From Lamarck to Weismann c. The Unfolding Principle 34-36 Naegeli and Bateson d. Natural Selection 36-39 Darwin CHAPTER II THE BEARING OF MENDEL'S DISCOVERY ON THE ORIGIN OF HEREDITY CHARACTERS 1. Mendel's First Discovery--Segregation
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