Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine De Lamarck

Zoological Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Lamarck outlined his theory of 'soft inheritance', which influenced Darwin, in this 1809 work, eventually translated into English in 1914.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9781108038423
• ISBN-10: 1108038425
• Artikelnr.: 34449926

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Hugh Elliot; Preface; Preliminary discourse; Part I.
Considerations on the Natural History of Animals, their Characters,
Affinities, Organisation, Classification and Species: 1. On artificial
devices in dealing with the productions of nature; 2. Importance of the
consideration of affinities; 3. Of species among living bodies, and the
idea that we should attach to that word; 4. General principles concerning
animals; 5. On the true arrangement and classification of animals; 6.
Degradation and simplification of organisation, from one extremity to the
other of the animal chain, proceeding from the most complex to the
simplest; 7. Of the influence of the environment on the activities and
habits of animals, and the influence of the activities and habits of these
living bodies in modifying their organisation and structure; 8. Of the
natural order of animals, and the way in which their classification should
be drawn up, so as to be in conformity with the actual order of nature;
Additions to the subject-matter of Chaps. 7 and 8; Part II. An Enquiry into
the Physical Causes of Life, the Conditions Required for its Existence, the
Exciting Force of its Movements, the Faculties Which It Confers on Bodies
Possessing It, and the Results of its Presence in Those Bodies:
Introduction; 1. Comparison of inorganic bodies with living bodies,
followed by a parallel between animals and plants; 2. Of life, what it
consists of, and the conditions of its existence in a body; 3. Of the
exciting cause of organic movements; 4. Of orgasm and irritability; 5. Of
cellular tissue, regarded as the matrix in which all organisation has been
cast; 6. Of direct or spontaneous generation; 7. Of the immediate results
of life in a body; 8. Of the faculties common to all living bodies; 9. Of
the faculties peculiar to certain living bodies; Summary of Part II; Part
III. An Enquiry into the Physical Causes of Feeling into the Force Which
Produces Actions, and Lastly into the Origin of the Acts of Intelligence
Observed in Various Animals: Introduction; 1. Of the nervous system, its
formation, and the various sorts of functions that it can fulfil; 2. Of the
nervous fluid; 3. Of physical sensibility and the mechanism of sensation;
4. Of the inner feeling, the emotions that it may experience, and the power
which it thence derives for the production of actions; 5. Of the force
which produces the actions of animals, and of certain peculiar facts
resulting from the use of the force; 6. Of the will; 7. Of the
understanding, its origin, and the origin of ideas; 8. Of the principal
acts of the understanding, or those of the first order from which all the
rest are derived; Index.