Biology Books

Evolution

James A. S. Watson

The idea of Evolution is an old one. It is older than the Darwinian hypothesis; it is older than Lamarck, who published his particular theory in 1809, the year that Darwin was born; it is older than B..

A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Works

Thomas H. Huxley

A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. Lecture VI. (of VI.),..

The Dancing Mouse - A Study in Animal Behavior

Robert Mearns Yerkes

This book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work— the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harva..

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Robert Chambers

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is an 1844 work of speculative natural history and philosophy by Robert Chambers.Excerpts:It is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a glob..

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

Hugo de Vries

The purpose of these lectures is to point out the means and methods by which the origin of species and varieties may become an object for experimental inquiry, in the interest of agricultural and hort..

Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life

Thomas Henry Huxley

Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life is a book on biology written by Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist and anthropologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Cha..

The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation

Thomas Henry Huxley

The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation. Lecture IV. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Specie..

The Story of Germ Life

H. W. Conn

Since the first edition of this book was published the popular idea of bacteria to which attention was drawn in the original preface has undergone considerable modification. Experimental medicine has ..