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Initiative in Evolution

Initiative in Evolution

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PREFACE 

Word Count: 572    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

case Lamarck versus Weismann was not heard in the Courts of Science during the war. In the present term it is due to be heard afresh, and at some future dat

tronghold and bar the gates. It may be satisfactory to himself for one Milner to write a book on behalf of a certain body of doctrine and call it The End of Controversy, but the book should have held the sub-title The End of Progress. The Newtons, Pasteurs and Darwins have seldom wielded the weapon of controversy, though the triumph of The Origin of Species would have been slower without the aid of Darwin's brilliant champio

ngement of the mammalian hair, which h

reflec-tion, and perhaps by certain criticisms. The furrow ploughed may have been lonely, but the pursuit has not been without the mild pleasure of seeing fresh scattered portions of the field coming into their nat

eptembe

Mr. Bur

the utmost harmony prevailed. The want

101 of the Chronicles

s, Graham Kerr, and Professors Sherrington, Starling, Sch?fer, McDougall

icism of two former books of mine which has been of use in this one; and Mr. R. E. Holding for good he

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Initiative in Evolution
“The Great War imposed on speculative biology a moratorium as in the long vaca-tion of lawyers, in which are causes left over to the next term. And so the old case Lamarck versus Weismann was not heard in the Courts of Science during the war. In the present term it is due to be heard afresh, and at some future date to come up for settlement. The chapters that follow comprise some of the pleadings on behalf of the plaintiff and are part of the brief of a junior counsel. This adjective, alas! signifies not the years—for such are often old enough to be the fathers of the leaders—but the standing and attainments of a junior.”
1 PREFACE2 CHAPTER I. FROM KNOWN TO UNKNOWN3 CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF THE POSITION4 CHAPTER III. THE PROBLEMS PRESENTED5 CHAPTER IV. INITIAL VARIATIONS AND TOTAL EXPERIENCE6 CHAPTER V. METHOD OF PROOF7 CHAPTER VI. EVIDENCE FROM ARRANGEMENT OF HAIR8 CHAPTER VII. THE EVOLUTION OF PATTERNS OF HAIR9 CHAPTER VIII. CAN MUSCULAR ACTION CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF HAIR IN THE INDIVIDUAL