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The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2)The aim of this work is to set forth the general truths of Biology, as illustrative of, and as interpreted by, the laws of Evolution: the special truths being introduced only so far as is needful for...
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Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These AnimalsAnts and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These AnimalsWhen discussing the ant-mind, we must consider that these small animals, on the one hand, differ very widely from ourselves in organisation, but on the other hand, have come, through so-called...
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Animal Life and IntelligenceAnimal Life and Intelligence There are many books in our language which deal with Animal Intelligence in an anecdotal and conventionally popular manner. There are a few, notably those by Mr. Romanes and Mr. Mivart, which bring adequate knowledge and training to bear on...
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Understanding the atomRadioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)The nature of life has excited the interest of human beings from the earliest times. Although it is still not known what life is, the characteristics that set living things apart from lifeless matter are well known. One feature common...
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Natural WondersNatural WondersNo small part of our fundamental knowledge concerning the world of nature has been put into shape for comprehension by children, time out of mind. The Swiss Family Robinson is half natural history, even if not always of an especially convincing kind; and...
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The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological PhilosophyThe publication of the present work on The Wonders of Life has been occasioned by the success of The Riddle of the Universe, which I wrote five years ago. Within a few months of the...
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The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical ViewpointThe Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical ViewpointIt is generally admitted that the individual physiological processes, such as digestion, metabolism, the production of heat or of electricity, are of a purely physicochemical character; and it is also conceded that the functions of individual...
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Gifford lectures, 1907The Science and Philosophy of the OrganismThis work is not a text-book of theoretical biology; it is a systematic presentment of those biological topics which bear upon the true philosophy of nature. The book is written in a decidedly subjective manner, and it seems...
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Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964This summary of certain aspects of the space biology program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration brings together some results of NASA research and NASA-sponsored research under grants and contracts from 1958 through 1964. Closely related research even...
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A Civic Biology, Presented in ProblemsA Civic Biology, Presented in ProblemsA course in biology given to beginners in the secondary school should have certain aims. These aims must be determined to a degree, first, by the capabilities of the pupils, second, by their native interests, and, third, by the...
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Warum wir sterbenWarum wir sterbenIch habe das Problem des Todes in den Zusammenhngen, wie ich es in diesen Blttern bringe, zum ersten Mal vor etwa zwei Jahren in dem Feuilleton einer Tageszeitung behandelt. Eine hnliche wissenschaftliche Behandlung hat das Todesproblem in ausgezeichneter Weise durch Doflein erfahren....
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Fathers of BiologyFathers of BiologyIt is hoped that the account given, in the following pages, of the lives of five great naturalists may not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There...
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Text Book of Biology, Part 1: VertebrataText Book of Biology, Part 1: VertebrataIn the year 1884 I was invited to give tuition by correspondence, in Biology. Although disposed at the time to ridicule the idea of imparting instruction in natural science by letter, I gladly accepted the opportunity thus afforded...
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BiologyBiology - A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the seriesI must at the outset remark that among the many sciences that are occupied with the study of the living world there is no one that may properly lay exclusive claim to the name...
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The Story of the Living MachineThe Story of the Living Machine - A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in RegardThat the living body is a machine is a statement that is frequently made without any very accurate idea as to what it means. On the one hand...
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American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of BiologyAmerican Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of BiologyWe live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of the deepest interest to all of us that we...
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Discourses: Biological & GeologicalDiscourses: Biological & Geological - Essays 1894 The contents of the present volume, with three exceptions, are either popular lectures, or addresses delivered to scientific bodies with which I have been officially connected. I am not sure which gave me the more trouble. For...
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Life: Its True GenesisLife: Its True Genesis Here is the law of life, as laid down by the eagle-eyed prophet Isaiah, in that remarkable chapter commencing, "Ho, every one that thirsteth"--whether it be after knowledge, or any other earthly or spiritual good--come unto me and I will...
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