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Author : Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108038423
Lamarck outlined his theory of 'soft inheritance', which influenced Darwin, in this 1809 work, eventually translated into English in 1914.
Author : Jean Baptiste Pierre Lamarck
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230457844
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. 1. Life. Jean-baptiste-pierre-antoine De Monet De Lamarck was born on Aug. 1st, 1744, at Bazantin, a village in Picardy, now known as the Department of the Somme. He was the eleventh and youngest child of his parents, and belonged to a family of nobility which had for generations past been devoted to military pursuits. A number of his brothers carried on the family tradition by entering the French army; but Jean himself was destined by his father for an ecclesiastical career, and was entered as a student at the Jesuit College at Amiens. Yet he himself had no inclination to the calling desired by his father; and on the death of the latter in 1760, he made immediate use of his new liberty to leave the Jesuit College and join the French army, which was then in Germany, near the end of the Seven Years' War. He bought a horse and rode through France and part of Germany, until he reached the French lines on the eve of the Battle of Fissingshausen. He carried with him a letter of introduction to the colonel of one of the infantry regiments; and on the following morning placed himself in a company of Grenadiers. The battle of Fissingshausen was fought and lost: the French retreated: all the officers of Lamarck's company were killed, and the command fell upon him. His courage was such that his colonel took him that very evening to the Field-Marshal, by whom he was appointed an officer.1 1 This at least is the story told by all Lamarck's biographers. I venture nevertheless to suggest that it can hardly be accepted in the unquestioning way usually followed. The story is founded upon Cuvier's Eloge de M. de Lamarck, and that again is doubtless Shortly afterwards Lamarck was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Peace being...
Author : Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine Lamarck
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022882368
Zoological Philosophy is a groundbreaking treatise on natural history by the French biologist and philosopher Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Lamarck. Originally published in 1809, the book presents an innovative theory of evolution that seeks to explain the diversity of animal species based on their adaptation to their environment and their inheritance of acquired characteristics. The book also contains numerous observations and descriptions of animals, as well as Lamarck's reflections on the nature of knowledge and the philosophy of science. This book will appeal to biologists, philosophers, and anyone interested in the history of scientific thought. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alex McBirney,Stanton Cook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048130092
Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution, catastrophism and creationism. While very much a product of the Third Republic, Perrier’s account also aimed to outline timeless issues and permanent advances in taxonomic and developmental biology since classical Greece and Rome. In this aim he succeeds with surprisingly modern perspectives for a book first published in 1884. Perrier was born May 9, 1844 at Tulle, the son of the principal of a school which now bears his name, Lycée Edmond Perrier. In 1864 he was accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, where he was strongly influenced by Louis Pasteur and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. After working for three years at a high school in Agen, he obtained a post of naturalist-aid at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1868), advancing in that institution to Chair of Natural History of Molluscs, Worms and Corals (1876–1903) and then Director of the museum (1900–1919) and Chair of Comparative Anatomy (1903–1921). Previous directors of the museum included many of the scientists he discusses in this book: George Cuvier (1822–1823, 1826–1827, 1830–1831), Isidore Geoffrey St Hilaire (1860– 1861), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1891–1900). Perrier’s own research on echinoderms and earthworms took him on several expeditions in 1880-1885, mostly to Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, but also to the Caribbean.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Physiology, Comparative
ISBN : OCLC:170885569
Author : Lamarck Jean B.
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474052135
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474052135
Author : John Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Zoology
ISBN : GENT:900000001264
"In preparing this work for the public, the writer was chiefly influenced by a desire to collect the truths of Zoology within a small compass, and to render them more intelligible, by a systematical arrangement. He is not aware that there exists any work in the English language, in which the subject, in its different bearings, has been illustrated in a philosophical manner, or to which a student of Zoology could be referred, as a suitable introduction to the science. There are not wanting, it is true, many disquisitions of great value, on particular departments of the physiology and classification of Animals. But the writings of these naturalists, and others which have been noticed in the body of the work, are not only rare, but expensive; so that the task of investigating the facts which have been established, or the theories which have been proposed, can scarcely, in ordinary circumstances, be entered upon. The want, indeed, of such an introduction to the study of the Animal Kingdom, as should serve as an index to the doctrines on which the classification is founded, has frequently been the subject of regret, and may probably be considered as the origin of that indifference to the science which is but too apparent in this country. This work aims to provide such an introduction by providing a view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals"--Preface.
Author : Elliott Sober
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429963421
Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ?special? sciences. This drama has centered on evolutionary theory, and in the second edition of this textbook, Elliott Sober introduces the reader to the most important issues of these developments. With a rare combination of technical sophistication and clarity of expression, Sober engages both the higher level of theory and the direct implications for such controversial issues as creationism, teleology, nature versus nurture, and sociobiology. Above all, the reader will gain from this book a firm grasp of the structure of evolutionary theory, the evidence for it, and the scope of its explanatory significance.
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1551113376
Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published. This unabridged edition also includes a rich selection of primary source material: substantial selections from Darwin’s other works (Autobiography, notebooks, letters, Voyage of the Beagle, and The Descent of Man) and selections from Darwin’s sources and contemporaries (excerpts from Genesis, Paley, Lamarck, Spencer, Lyell, Malthus, Huxley, and Wallace).
Author : Peter Brian Medawar,J. S. Medawar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674045378
Intended for browsing by educated persons such as biologists, psychologists, sociologists, and other "reflective people who see in biology the science most relevant to the understanding and melioration of the human condition." Lengthy enties. Index.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Science
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106312879
Author : J. B. Lamarck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1528559886
Excerpt from Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition With Regard to the Natural History of Animals; The Diversity of Their Organisation and the Faculties Which They Derive From It; The Physical Causes Which Maintain Life Within Them and Give Rise to Their Various Movements; Lastly, Those Which Some general considerations on nature, and her power to create life and organisation, and subsequently to increase the complexity of the latter. In all these operations, she works only by the action of various moving fluids on supple bodies, which are modified, organised, and animated by these fluids. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : K. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230503809
In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being ?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.
Author : James Franklin Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140200530X
This book should prove to be an invaluable resource and reference for both scholars and students interested in any problem in the area of analytic philosophy of religion. Analytic Philosophy of Religion is a thorough examination of the major issues that have occupied twentieth-century Anglo-American, analytic philosophy of religion and the positions that have been developed by the major figures in the field. The author also develops his own critical reactions to these positions and, in many cases, his own positions as well. Attention is focused on what have proven to be the enduring, major problems of analytic philosophy of religion: the development and nature of analytic philosophy, the problem of religious language, the nature of God, arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, religious epistemology, religion and science, the problem of evil, naturalism and humanism, religion and ethics, and religious pluralism. For contents and a free preview for all three volumes: www.new-in-philosophy.com