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Read Ebook: Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge Will
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Ebook has 1573 lines and 94143 words, and 32 pages
Death inevitable in the Fight for Life 82
"Inexplicable on the Theory of Creation" 84
Obscure Checks to Increase 85
Climate as a Check to Increase 86
Influence of Insects in the Struggle for Existence 88
No such Thing as Change in the Result of the Struggle 90
NATURAL SELECTION; OR, THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
An Invented Hypothesis 93
How far the Theory may be extended 94
Is there any Limit to what Selection can effect? 96
Has Organization advanced? 97
A Higher Workmanship than Man's 99
Why Habits and Structure are not in Agreement 102
No Modification in one Species designed for the Good of Another 103
Divergence of Character 108
Evolution of the Human Eye 110
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC BEINGS.
Isolated Continents never were united 115
Means of Dispersal 116
These Means of Transport not accidental 118
Dispersal during the Glacial Period 119
The Theory of Creation inadequate 122
Causes of a Glacial Climate 123
Difficulties not yet removed 124
Identity of the Species of Islands with those of the Mainland explained only by this Theory 125
EVIDENCE OF THE DESCENT OF MAN FROM SOME LOWER FORM.
Points of Correspondence between Man and the other Animals 129
The facts of Embryology and the Theory of Development 131
Two Principles that explain the Facts 134
Embryology against Abrupt Changes 135
Rudimentary Organs only to be explained on the Theory of Development 137
"No other Explanation has ever been given" 139
Unity of Type explained by Relationship 140
Inexplicable on the Ordinary View of Creation 142
Descent with Modification the only Explanation 143
The History of Life on the Theory of Descent with Modification 144
Letters retained in the Spelling but Useless in Pronunciation 146
Man's Deficiency in Tail 147
Points of Resemblance between Man and Monkey 149
Variability of Man 152
Causes of Variability in Domesticated Man 153
Action of Changed Conditions 155
The Inherited Effects of the Increased and Diminished Use of Parts 156
Reversion as a Factor in the Development of Man 158
Reversion in the Human Family 160
Prepotence in the Transmission of Character 162
Natural Selection in the Development of Man 163
How Man became upright 165
The Brain enlarges as the Mental Faculties develop 167
Nakedness of the Skin 169
Is Man the most helpless of the Animals? 171
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