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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Locy, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1924. Biology and its makers. New York : Henry Holt, [1928, c1908] (OCoLC)642442215 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William A Locy |
| OCLC Number: | 7131460 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xxvi, 477 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | An outline of the rise of biology and of the epochs in its history.--Vesalius and the overthrow of authority in science.--William Harvey and experimental observation.--The introduction of the microscope and the progress of independent observation.--The progress of minute anatomy.--Linnæus and scientific natural history.--Cuvier and the rise of comparative anatomy.--Bichat and the birth of histology.--The rise of physiology. Harvey. Haller. Johannes Müller.--Von Baer and the rise of embryology.--The cell-theory. Schleiden. Schwann. Schultze.--Protoplasm and physical basis of life.--The work of Pasteur, Koch, and others.--Heredity and germinal continuity. Mendel. Galton. Weismann.--The science of fossil life.--What evolution is; the evidence upon which it rests, etc.--Theories of evolution. Lamarck. Darwin.--Theories continued. Weismann. De Vries.--The rise of evolutionary thought.--Retrospect and prospect. Present tendencies in biology. |
| Responsibility: | by William A. Locy. |
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