Abstract
A COUPLE of years ago Prof. K. C. Schneider published six admirably clear and objective lectures as an introduction to the study of the evolution-theory. It was a useful exposition of the facts of variation and heredity, and of the Darwinian and Lamarckian interpretations. The present volume is critical and personal, and is not easy reading. We cannot do more than indicate the author's point of view. The first half of the book deals with stimulus, psyche and consciousness, subject and individuation, sensation and heredity, need and purpose, and Darwinism. The second half deals with mutation, potency, and structure; orthogenesis and extinction; trophic stimulus; vitality; entelechy and heritability; phylogeny, and the becoming of man.
Versuch einer Begründung der Deszendenztheorie.
By Prof. Karl Camillo Schneider. Pp. viii+132. (Jena: G. Fischer, 1908.) Price 3 marks.
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T., J. Versuch einer Begründung der Deszendenztheorie . Nature 79, 34 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079034a0
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