Lanterna Rally

Author: Charles Manning Child

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781330563229

Excerpt from Individuality in Organisms The present book is an attempt to state, and to present some of the evidence in favor of, a conception of the nature of organic individuality which has gradually developed in the mind of the writer during the course of some fifteen years' investigation of the simpler processes of reproduction and development in the lower animals. In these forms organic individuality appears in relatively simple terms, and it is here if anywhere that we must look for the key to the problem of individuality in the higher animals and man. With the great variety of facts at hand and the limited space available, it has often been difficult to decide what particular points of the evidence to include in the consideration and what to omit. To those familiar with biological facts it will doubtless be evident that many data from various lines of investigation have been either barely mentioned or entirely omitted. The attempt has been made to show in some degree the wide range of applicability of this conception of individuality to various biological fields, and it is perhaps permissible to express the hope that, not only the physiologist and botanist, but also the neurologist, the psychologist, and the sociologist may find something of interest in it. Chaps. i and ii are necessarily somewhat abstract and condensed and may seem to some readers to demand too extensive a background of biological knowledge. A re-reading of these chapters after reading chaps, iii-vi will assist in decreasing this difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.