Full title: Evolution and adaptation / by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph. D.

Author/creator: Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945.

Date: 1903..

Call Numbers: T0021908

Record Identifier: 74VvdeA8bLjO

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiii, 470 p. : illus. ; 23 cm., The problem of adaptation.--The theory of evolution.--Darwin's theories of artificial and of natural selection.--Darwin's theory of sexual selection.--The inheritance of acquired characters.--Continuous and discontinuous variation and heredity.--Evolution as the result of external and internal factors.--The origin of the different kinds of adaptations.--Tropisms and instincts as adaptations.--Sex as an adaptation.--Summary and general conclusions.

Publishers: New York, : The Macmillan company ; London, : Macmillan & co., ltd., 1903.

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