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Read Ebook: Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge Will
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev PageEbook has 1573 lines and 94143 words, and 32 pagesDeath inevitable in the Fight for Life 82 "Inexplicable on the Theory of Creation" 84 Obscure Checks to Increase 85 Climate as a Check to Increase 86 Influence of Insects in the Struggle for Existence 88 No such Thing as Change in the Result of the Struggle 90 NATURAL SELECTION; OR, THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. An Invented Hypothesis 93 How far the Theory may be extended 94 Is there any Limit to what Selection can effect? 96 Has Organization advanced? 97 A Higher Workmanship than Man's 99 Why Habits and Structure are not in Agreement 102 No Modification in one Species designed for the Good of Another 103 Divergence of Character 108 Evolution of the Human Eye 110 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC BEINGS. Isolated Continents never were united 115 Means of Dispersal 116 These Means of Transport not accidental 118 Dispersal during the Glacial Period 119 The Theory of Creation inadequate 122 Causes of a Glacial Climate 123 Difficulties not yet removed 124 Identity of the Species of Islands with those of the Mainland explained only by this Theory 125 EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM. Points of Correspondence between Man and the other Animals 129 The facts of Embryology and the Theory of Development 131 Two Principles that explain the Facts 134 Embryology against Abrupt Changes 135 Rudimentary Organs only to be explained on the Theory of Development 137 "No other Explanation has ever been given" 139 Unity of Type explained by Relationship 140 Inexplicable on the Ordinary View of Creation 142 Descent with Modification the only Explanation 143 The History of Life on the Theory of Descent with Modification 144 Letters retained in the Spelling but Useless in Pronunciation 146 Man's Deficiency in Tail 147 Points of Resemblance between Man and Monkey 149 Variability of Man 152 Causes of Variability in Domesticated Man 153 Action of Changed Conditions 155 The Inherited Effects of the Increased and Diminished Use of Parts 156 Reversion as a Factor in the Development of Man 158 Reversion in the Human Family 160 Prepotence in the Transmission of Character 162 Natural Selection in the Development of Man 163 How Man became upright 165 The Brain enlarges as the Mental Faculties develop 167 Nakedness of the Skin 169 Is Man the most helpless of the Animals? 171 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page |
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