Development and Evolution; Including Psychophysical Evolution, Evolution by Orthoplasy, and the Theory of Genetic Modes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C RECENT BIOLOGY1 1. Annie biologique: Comptes rendus annuels des travaux de biologic generale. YvEsDELAGE. Premiere ann DEGREESe, 1895. Paris, Reinwald. 1897. pp. xlv + 732. 2. Essays. G. J. Romanes. Edited by C. Ll. Morgan. London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 1897. pp. 253, 3. Darwin and after Darwin, III. Isolation and Physiological Selection. G. J. Romanes. Edited by C. Ll. Morgan. Chicago, Open Court Pub. Co. 1897. pp. viii + 178. I. In this handsome volume (i) Professor Delage begins the annual issue of a summary of biological progress; a work which was well begun in his earlier volume on Heredity, etc. In the preface to this volume we read: "To those who have read the volume on Heredity and the Great Problems of Biology this new annual will not cause surprise. It is the natural sequel to that work. . . . The earlier work may be considered as a first volume, serving the purpose of setting the questions, defining the problems, tracing the outlines, establishing the categories, and resuming the results, up to 1895, from which date this periodical takes up all the topics and carries them on from year to year." The reader of the Grands Problemes will have, therefore, a fair idea of.the divisions, headings, etc., of this new publication. The way in which the general purpose of the editor and his contributors is carried out in this first volume calls for much admiration. Not only will it be of great value to biologists, but students in neighbouring departments, especially in psychology, will find it a reliable and readable introduction to the newer biological problems in their latest phases. One feature strikes the present writer as peculiarly good -- albeit exceedingly difficult-- i.e., the attempt of the editor to gather up in a few pages a statement ...