Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

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About this book

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to Samuel Butler. Catalog subjects include Natural selection; Evolution. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

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Unknown year

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English

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Public domain

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Project Gutenberg ebook #4967

Table of contents

23 chapters

1. 01Luck, or Cunning As the Main Means of Organic Modification?2 min
2. 02Note2 min
3. 03Author’s Preface to First Edition3 min
4. 04Chapter I Introduction23 min
5. 05Chapter II Mr. Herbert Spencer20 min
6. 06Chapter III Mr. Herbert Spencer (continued)15 min
7. 07Chapter IV [52a] Mr. Romanes’ “Mental Evolution in Animals”25 min
8. 08Chapter V Statement of the Question at Issue14 min
9. 09Chapter VI Statement of the Question at Issue (continued)29 min
10. 10Chapter VII (Intercalated) Mr. Spencer’s “The Factors of Organic Evolution”16 min
11. 11Chapter VIII Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm13 min
12. 12Chapter IX Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm (continued)15 min
13. 13Chapter X The Attempt to Eliminate Mind18 min
14. 14Chapter XI The Way of Escape13 min
15. 15Chapter XII Why Darwin’s Variations were Accidental18 min
16. 16Chapter XIII Darwin’s Claim to Descent with Modification13 min
17. 17Chapter XIV Darwin and Descent with Modification (continued)22 min
18. 18Chapter XV The Excised “My’s”13 min
19. 19Chapter XVI Mr. Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin”21 min
20. 20Chapter XVII Professor Ray Lankester and Lamarck10 min
21. 21Chapter XVIII Per Contra19 min
22. 22Chapter XIX Conclusion25 min
23. 23Footnotes5 min