The Direction of Hair, in Animals and Man (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Walter Kidd

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ISBN 10 : 1330005198 ISBN 13 : 9781330005194

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The purpose of this work is threefold. It seeks to co-ordinate the scattered facts of the direction of the hair in the lower animals and man, to furnish interpretations of most of them on mechanical principles, and to supply an answer to the question, Can acquired characters be inherited? It is shown that with few exceptions the hair-streams grow on the animal body in the lines of least resistance, and the resistances encountered are mechanical. No doubt many of the phenomena here described are intrinsically uninteresting and unimportant. As part of a page of natural history they might never have been recorded: But natural history may become natural science, and until it has done so it has failed to fill its place in the order of Nature. When it is seen that the object here kept in view is the establishment of a fragment of abstract truth, many, whose horror of theory is genuine and, perhaps, not unreasonable, may be deterred from further interest in it. But others would prefer to help in laying one stone which shall be hidden in the foundations of the fabric of science than many a course of finer blocks in her rapidly-rising walls.

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally-enhance the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330005198
• ISBN 13: 9781330005194
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 169
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