Zoological philosophy

an exposition with regard to the natural history of animals

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Zoological philosophy

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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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August 5, 1997, Flammarion
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1984, University of Chicago Press
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1963, Hafner
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December 1960, Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd
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Table of Contents

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.

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590
Library of Congress
QL45 .L2313 1984, QL45.L2313 1984

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

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OL2840711M
Internet Archive
zoologicalphilo000lama
ISBN 10
0226468100, 0226468097
ISBN 13
9780226468105, 9780226468099
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84002570
OCLC/WorldCat
10597163
Library Thing
1912475
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2413537
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