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Evolution and adaptation

Title
Evolution and adaptation / by Thomas Hunter Morgan, Ph. D.
Author
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945.
Publication
New York : The Macmillan company; London : Macmillan & co., ltd., 1903.

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xiii, 470 p. : illus.; 23 cm
Subjects
Contents
The problem of adaptation.--The theory of evolution.--Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.--Darwin's theory of sexual selection.--The inheritance of acquired characters.--Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.--Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.--The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.--Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.--Sex as an adaptation.--Summary and general conclusions.
LCCN
03027216
OCLC
  • ocm01157191
  • SCSB-4193659
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Columbia University Libraries