The Whence and the Whither of Man: A Brief History of His Origin and Development Through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895C. Scribner's son, 1896 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina vi
... functions . CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SEQUENCE OF FUNCTIONS 113 Mode of investigation.- Intellect . Sense - perceptions . - Association.— Inference and understanding . - Rational intelligence . - Modes of ...
... functions . CHAPTER V THE HISTORY OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SEQUENCE OF FUNCTIONS 113 Mode of investigation.- Intellect . Sense - perceptions . - Association.— Inference and understanding . - Rational intelligence . - Modes of ...
Pagina viii
... Summary . CHART SHOWING SEQUENCE OF ATTAINMENTS AND OF DOMINANT FUNCTIONS PHYLOGENETIC CHART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . 310 · • 309 INDEX 311 INTRODUCTION IN the year 1865 Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse viii TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... Summary . CHART SHOWING SEQUENCE OF ATTAINMENTS AND OF DOMINANT FUNCTIONS PHYLOGENETIC CHART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . 310 · • 309 INDEX 311 INTRODUCTION IN the year 1865 Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse viii TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Pagina xi
... functions or aims in life can be traced with far more ease and safety , not to say certainty , than one of anatomical details . The latter characterize small groups , genera , families , or classes ; while the dominant function ...
... functions or aims in life can be traced with far more ease and safety , not to say certainty , than one of anatomical details . The latter characterize small groups , genera , families , or classes ; while the dominant function ...
Pagina xii
... functions characterizes them all ; digestion is domi- nant before locomotion and locomotion before thought . And it is hardly less than a physiological necessity that it should be so . The plant can and does exist , living almost purely ...
... functions characterizes them all ; digestion is domi- nant before locomotion and locomotion before thought . And it is hardly less than a physiological necessity that it should be so . The plant can and does exist , living almost purely ...
Pagina xiii
... functions have risen to dominance in the successive stages of animal and human development , if we can further be convinced that the sequence is irreversible , we shall be convinced that future man will be more and more com- pletely ...
... functions have risen to dominance in the successive stages of animal and human development , if we can further be convinced that the sequence is irreversible , we shall be convinced that future man will be more and more com- pletely ...
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advance amoeba amphibia anatomical ancestors animal kingdom annelid apes appear appetite archenteron attained become beginning better birds body brain cells cerebrum characteristics conformity to environment conscious degeneration dominant ectoderm embryo embryology entoderm experience eyes fish functions future ganglion gastrula germ-plasm give groups heredity higher animals higher forms highest human hydra important increase individual insect instinct intelligence jaws knowledge laws layer legs living locomotion lower mammals man's marsupial ment mental mind mode modified mollusks moral motives muscles muscular muscular system natural selection nephridia nerve nervous system never notochord nutriment organs oxygen parapodia perception possible primitive probably progress protoplasm protozoa purely reflex action reptiles result schematic worm segments selfish sense-organs sequence shell skeleton species spermatozoa stage structure struggle surface survive swimming theory of evolution tion tissues true truth turbellaria unselfishness variation velopment vertebral column vertebrates volvox young