The Evolution of Man

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The Evolution of
Man
A POPULAR SCIENTIFIC STUDY
by Ernst Haeckel
Translated from the Fifth (enlarged) Edition by Joseph
McCabe
[Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited]
WATTS & CO.
17 Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
1912
From the painting by Franz von
Lenbach, 1899
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
GLOSSARY
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

TABLE: CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL WORLD
Chapter I. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION
Chapter II. THE OLDER EMBRYOLOGY
Chapter III. MODERN EMBRYOLOGY
Chapter IV. THE OLDER PHYLOGENY
Chapter V. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION
Chapter VI. THE OVUM–THE AMŒBA
Chapter VII. CONCEPTION
Chapter VIII. THE GASTRÆA THEORY
Chapter IX. THE GASTRULATION OF THE VERTEBRATE
Chapter X. THE CŒLOM THEORY
Chapter XI. THE VERTEBRATE CHARACTER OF MAN
Chapter XII. THE EMBRYONIC SHIELD–GERMINATIVE AREA
Chapter XIII. DORSAL BODY–VENTRAL BODY
Chapter XIV. THE ARTICULATION OF THE BODY
Chapter XV. FŒTAL MEMBRANES AND CIRCULATION
Chapter XVI. STRUCTURE OF THE LANCELET AND THE SEA-SQUIRT
Chapter XVII. EMBRYOLOGY OF THE LANCELET AND THE SEASQUIRT
Chapter XVIII. DURATION OF THE HISTORY OF OUR STEM
Chapter XIX. OUR PROTIST ANCESTORS
Chapter XX. OUR WORM-LIKE ANCESTORS
Chapter XXI. OUR FISH-LIKE ANCESTORS
Chapter XXII. OUR FIVE-TOED ANCESTORS
Chapter XXIII. OUR APE ANCESTORS
Chapter XXIV. EVOLUTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Chapter XXV. EVOLUTION OF THE SENSE-ORGANS
Chapter XXVI. EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANS OF MOVEMENT
Chapter XXVII. EVOLUTION OF THE ALIMENTARY SYSTEM
Chapter XXVIII. EVOLUTION OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM
Chapter XXIX. EVOLUTION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS
Chapter XXX. RESULTS OF ANTHROPOGENY

INDEX

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