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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
A POPULAR SCIENTIFIC STUDY
BY
ERNST HAECKEL
VOLUME 1.
HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY OR ONTOGENY.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH (ENLARGED) EDITION BY JOSEPH MCCABE.
[ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.]
WATTS & CO.,17, JOHNSONS COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.1912.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
GLOSSARY.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
TABLE: CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL WORLD.
CHAPTER 1.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION.
CHAPTER 1.2. THE OLDER EMBRYOLOGY.
CHAPTER 1.3. MODERN EMBRYOLOGY.
CHAPTER 1.4. THE OLDER PHYLOGENY.
CHAPTER 1.5. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION.
CHAPTER 1.6. THE OVUM AND THE AMOEBA.
CHAPTER 1.7. CONCEPTION.
CHAPTER 1.8. THE GASTRAEA THEORY.
CHAPTER 1.9. THE GASTRULATION OF THE VERTEBRATE.
CHAPTER 1.10. THE COELOM THEORY.
CHAPTER 1.11. THE VERTEBRATE CHARACTER OF MAN.
CHAPTER 1.12. THE EMBRYONIC SHIELD AND GERMINATIVE AREA.
CHAPTER 1.13. DORSAL BODY AND VENTRAL BODY.
CHAPTER 1.14. THE ARTICULATION OF THE BODY.
CHAPTER 1.15. FOETAL MEMBRANES AND CIRCULATION.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAIT OF ERNST HAECKEL FROM THE PAINTING BY FRANZ VON LEUBACH, 1899(REPRODUCED BY "JUGEND").
FIGURE 1.1. THE HUMAN OVUM.
FIGURE 1.2. STEM-CELL OF AN ECHINODERM.
FIGURE 1.3. THREE EPITHELIAL CELLS.
FIGURE 1.4. FIVE SPINY OR GROOVED CELLS.
FIGURE 1.5. TEN LIVER-CELLS.
FIGURE 1.6. NINE STAR-SHAPED BONE-CELLS.
FIGURE 1.7. ELEVEN STAR-SHAPED CELLS.
FIGURE 1.8. UNFERTILISED OVUM OF AN ECHINODERM.
FIGURE 1.9. A LARGE BRANCHING NERVE-CELL.
FIGURE 1.10. BLOOD-CELLS.
FIGURE 1.11. INDIRECT OR MITOTIC CELL-DIVISION.
FIGURE 1.12. MOBILE CELLS.
FIGURE 1.13. OVA OF VARIOUS ANIMALS.
FIGURE 1.14. THE HUMAN OVUM.
FIGURE 1.15. FERTILISED OVUM OF HEN.
FIGURE 1.16. A CREEPING AMOEBA.
FIGURE 1.17. DIVISION OF AN AMOEBA.
FIGURE 1.18. OVUM OF A SPONGE.
FIGURE 1.19. BLOOD-CELLS, OR PHAGOCYTES.
FIGURE 1.20. SPERMIA OR SPERMATOZOA.
FIGURE 1.21. SPERMATOZOA OF VARIOUS ANIMALS.
FIGURE 1.22. A SINGLE HUMAN SPERMATOZOON.
FIGURE 1.23. FERTILISATION OF THE OVUM.