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by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de...

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck is remembered primarily as a pre-Darwinian evolutionist who proposed the inheritance of acquired characters to explain evolutionary change. But this narrow view of Lamarck does not do justice to his conception of organic change, nor does it indicate how Lamarck's views on organic change related to the rest of his biological thinking. This edition of Lamarck's most famous treatise, the Zoological Philosophy, provides an opportunity to reconsider this major work of 19th-century biology. It includes as well Lamarck's "Introductory Discourse" of 1800 and Cuvier's infamous "Biographical Memoir," an attack on Lamarck that has been the source of common misconceptions about his work. Introductory essays by David L. Hull and Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., discuss Lamarck's contributions in the context of his time and reassess their significance for the development of evolutionary theory. - Back cover.

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1984

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University of Chicago Press

Language

English

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453

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The zoological philosophy of J.B. Lamarck / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.

Lamarck among the Anglos / David L. Hull

Preface

Preliminary discourse

Part one : Considerations on the natural history of animals, their characters, affinities, organization, classification and species.

On artificial devices in dealing with the productions of nature

Importance of the consideration of affinities

Of species among living bodies, and the idea that we should attach to that word

General principles concerning animals

On the true arrangement and classification of animals

Degradation and simplification of organization, from one extremity to the other of the animal chain, proceeding from the most complex to the simplest

Of the influence of the environment on the activities and habits of animals, and the influence of the activities and habits of these living bodies in modifying their organization and structure

Of the natural order of animals, and the way in which their classification should be drawn up, so as to be in conformity with the actual order of nature

Additions to the subject matter of chapters 7 and 8

Part two : An enquiry into the physical causes of life, the conditions required for its existence, the exciting force of its movements, the faculties which it confers on bodies possessing it, and the results of its presence in those bodies

Introduction

Comparison of inorganic bodies with living bodies, followed by a parallel between animals and plants

Of life, what it consists of, and the conditions of its existence in a body

Of the exciting cause of organic movements

Of orgasm and irritability

Of cellular tissue, regarded as the matrix in which all organization has been cast

Of direct or spontaneous generation

Of the immediate results of life in a body

Of the faculties common to all living bodies

Of the faculties peculiar to certain living bodies

Summary of part two

Part three : An enquiry into the physical causes of feeling, into the force which produces actions, and lastly into the origin of the acts of intelligence observed in various animals.

Introduction

Of the nervous system, its formation, and the various sorts of functions that it can fulfill

Of the nervous fluid

Of physical sensibility and the mechanism of sensations

Of the inner feeling, the emotions that it may experience, and the power which it thence derives for the production of actions

Of the force which produces the actions of animals, and of certain peculiar facts resulting from the use of this force

Of the will

Of the understanding, its origin, and the origin of ideas

Of the principal acts of the understanding, or those of the first order from which all the rest are derived

Introductory lecture for 1800

Biographical memoir of M. de Lamarck

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.
Translation of: Philosophie zoologique.

Published in: Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 590
Library of Congress: QL45 .L2313 1984, QL45.L2313 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination: lxvi, 453 p.
Number of pages: 453
Dimensions: 23 x x centimeters

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Open Library: OL2840711M
Internet Archive: zoologicalphilo000lama
ISBN 10: 0226468100, 0226468097
ISBN 13: 9780226468105, 9780226468099
LCCN: 84002570
OCLC/WorldCat: 10597163
Library Thing: 1912475
Goodreads: 2413537; 1270819

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Zoological philosophy

an exposition with regard to the natural history of animals

by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de...