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Creation by evolution ; a consensus of present-day knowledge as set forth by leading authorities in non-technical language that all may understand

Title
Creation by evolution ; a consensus of present-day knowledge as set forth by leading authorities in non-technical language that all may understand / edited by Frances Mason.
Author
Mason, Frances (Frances Baker)
Publication
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1928.

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Additional Authors
  • Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
  • Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933.
  • Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947.
  • Parker, George Howard, 1864-1955.
  • MacBride, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1940.
  • Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952.
  • Scott, William Berryman, 1858-1947.
  • Bather, Francis Arthur, 1863-1934.
  • Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932.
  • Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944.
  • Gager, C. Stuart (Charles Stuart), 1872-1943.
  • Berry, Edward Wilber, 1875-1945.
  • Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943.
  • Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927.
  • Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937.
  • Loomis, Frederic Brewster, 1873-1937.
  • Watson, David Meredith Seares, 1886-1973.
  • Lull, Richard Swann, 1867-1957.
  • Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970.
  • Holmes, Samuel J. (Samuel Jackson), 1868-1964.
  • Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937.
  • Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
  • Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd), 1852-1936.
  • Newman, Horatio Hackett, 1875-1957.
Description
xx pages, 1 leaf, 392 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams; 23 cm
Subject
Note
  • --Evolution of the bird, by D.M.S. Watson.--Connecting and missing links in the ascent to man, by R.S. Lull.--The lineage of man, by W.K. Gregory.--The human side of apes, by S.J. Holmes.--The evolution of the brain, by G.E. Smith.--Progress shown in evolution, by J.S. Huxley.--Mind in evolution, by C.L. Morgan.--Cumulative evidence for evolution, by H.H. Newman.
Bibliography (note)
  • "References" at end of each essay.
Contents
Foreword, by H.F. Osborn.--Introduction, by Sir C.S. Sherrington.--Evolution--its meaning, by D.S. Jordan.--Why we must be evolutionists, by J.A. Thomson.--Can we see evolution occurring? by H.S. Jennings.--Vestigial organs, by G.H. Parker.--Evolution as shown by the development of the individual organism, by E.W. MacBride.--Embryology and evolution, by E.G. Conklin.--The geographical distribution of animals, by W.B. Scott.--The record of the rocks, by F.A. Bather.--The nature of species, by J.W. Gregory.--The progression of life on earth, by Sir A.S. Woodward.--The evolution of plants, by C.S. Gager.--The story told by fossil plants, by E.W. Berry.--Butterflies and moths as evidence of evolution, by E.B. Poulton.--Evolution of the bee and the beehive, by Sir A.E. Shipley.--The evolution of ants, by W.M. Wheeler.--The evolution of the horse and the elephant, by F.B. Loomis.
LCCN
28012912
OCLC
  • ocm01006173
  • SCSB-3684410
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries