The Problem of Life: An Essay in the Origins of Biological ThoughtMacmillan, 1976 - 343 Seiten |
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... clear - cut . And , since the work of David Hume in the eighteenth century , moderns have been forced to accept that the phenomenal world , as treated by post - Galilean science , is mysterious and ultimately unintelligible . For it has ...
... clear - cut . And , since the work of David Hume in the eighteenth century , moderns have been forced to accept that the phenomenal world , as treated by post - Galilean science , is mysterious and ultimately unintelligible . For it has ...
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... clear that Herophilus had observed an artefact . It would have been impossible for him to have observed individual nerve fibres , and the cavity he speaks of must have been due to shrinkage . One further opinion of Herophilus is worth ...
... clear that Herophilus had observed an artefact . It would have been impossible for him to have observed individual nerve fibres , and the cavity he speaks of must have been due to shrinkage . One further opinion of Herophilus is worth ...
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... clear that the forces causing species to differentiate are selective forces . But he agrees in seeing the twin phenomena of individual response to environmental conditions and the inheritance of the characters consequently acquired as ...
... clear that the forces causing species to differentiate are selective forces . But he agrees in seeing the twin phenomena of individual response to environmental conditions and the inheritance of the characters consequently acquired as ...
Inhalt
Preface | 8 |
The act of imagination | 8 |
The palaeontology of some key words | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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