Evolution and Animal Life; an Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes, Laws and Theories Relating to the Life and Evolution of Animals - Couverture rigide
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In the present volume the writers have tried to give a lucid el inentary account, in limited space, of the processes of evolution as thev are so far umlerstood. We have turned to animals for illustrative pur| oses, nearly to the exclusion of references to plants, 8imj)ly because both authors are zoologists and have made use of the facts most familiar to them. Tlie book is comjiosed primarily of the substance of a university course of elementary lectures delivered jointly by the authors each year to students representing all lines of college work. This fact, and the desirable limiting of the book to a convenient size for the general reader and student, account for the extremely laconic treatment of various important moot points concerning the evolution mechanism, and for the omission of certain discussions which otherwise might well have been included. But on the whole the authors feel that the interested general reader will find this small volume a fairly comprehensive introduction to our present-day knowledge of the factors and phenomena of organic evolution. To the general reader we may perhaps with propriety address the following words, used to the students in the opening lecture of the course: We cannot talk long without saying something others do not believe. Others cannot talk long without saying something we do not believe. We wish you to accept no view of ours unless you reach it through your own investigation. What we hope for is to have you think of these things and find out for vourselves. D. S. J. V. L. K. Lkland Stanford Junior Universitt, March SO, 1907.
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