CREATION BY
EVOLUTION
EDITED BY
FRANCES MASON
CREATION BY EVOLUTION
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From “Country Life,” London.
The Tree of Life.
Evolution does not move in a straight course, symbolized by the links in a chain; the tree is a symbol of nature’s plan of creation. The trunk represents the main course of life through the ages; the branches are the great groups of plants and animals that have appeared during the growth of the tree; the plants and animals now living are the green twigs at the tips of the branches. In the evolution of forms there are no offshoots leading from one branch to another; the branches start from below and diverge as they grow, each branch maintaining its own course.
Thus life in its evolution manifests itself in a related yet divergent series of forms, constituting the widespreading tree of life.
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
❦
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
MCMXXVIII
Copyright, 1928,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed.
Published May, 1928.
Reprinted June, 1928.
SET UP BY BROWN BROTHERS LINOTYPERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE CORNWALL PRESS, INC.
DEDICATED
TO THOSE WHO SEEK EVIDENCE OF
NATURE’S UNIVERSAL METHOD OF CREATION
AND TO THOSE WHO FIND THE STORY
OF INEXHAUSTIBLE INTEREST
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
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EDITOR’S PREFACE | vii |
FOREWORD | ix |
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, LL.D., D.Sc, A.B., Sc.D., Ph.D. | |
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INTRODUCTION | xi |
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, O.M., F.R.S., G.B.E., LL.D., M.A., M.D., D.Sc, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. | |
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EVOLUTION—ITS MEANING | 1 |
David Starr Jordan, M.S., M.D., Ph.D., LL.D. | |
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WHY WE MUST BE EVOLUTIONISTS | 13 |
J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., LL.D. | |
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CAN WE SEE EVOLUTION OCCURRING? | 24 |
Herbert Spencer Jennings, B.S., A.M., S.D., Ph.D., LL.D. | |
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VESTIGIAL ORGANS | 34 |
George Howard Parker, S.D., S.B. | |
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EVOLUTION AS SHOWN BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM | 49 |
Ernest William MacBride, F.R.S., M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.Z.S., F.L.S. | |
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EMBRYOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | 62 |
Edwin Grant Conklin, S.B., A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D. | |
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THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS | 81 |
William Berryman Scott, A.B., Ph.D. (Heidelberg), LL.D., Sc.D. (Harvard and Oxford). | |
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THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS | 102 |
Francis Arthur Bather, F.R.S., MA., D.Sc, F.G.S. | |
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THE NATURE OF SPECIES | 112 |
John Walter Gregory, F.R.S., D.Sc, F.G.S., M.I.M.M. | |
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THE PROGRESSION OF LIFE ON EARTH | 124 |
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., LL.D. | |
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THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS | 137 |
C. Stuart Gager, Pd.B., Sc.D., Pd.D., Ph.D. | |
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THE STORY TOLD BY FOSSIL PLANTS | 156 |
Edward Wilber Berry. | |
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BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS AS EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION | 174 |
Edward Bagnall Poulton, F.R.S., MA., Hon. LL.D. (Princeton), Hon. D.Sc. (Durham, Dublin), D.Sc. (Sydney). | |
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EVOLUTION OF THE BEE AND THE BEEHIVE | 186 |
Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, F.R.S., G.B.E., M.A., Sc.D., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Hon. D.Sc. (Princeton), Hon. LL.D. (Michigan), Hon. M.Sc. (Drexel Institute). | |
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THE EVOLUTION OF ANTS | 210 |
William Morton Wheeler, Ph.D., Sc.D. | |
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE AND THE ELEPHANT | 225 |
Frederic Brewster Loomis, B.A., Ph.D. | |
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EVOLUTION OF THE BIRD | 242 |
David Meredith Seares Watson, F.R.S., D.Sc, F.G.Z. | |
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CONNECTING AND MISSING LINKS IN THE ASCENT TO MAN | 255 |
Richard Swann Lull, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D., MA., Sc.D. | |
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THE LINEAGE OF MAN | 270 |
William King Gregory, Ph.D. | |
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THE HUMAN SIDE OF APES | 293 |
Samuel Jackson Holmes, B.S., Ph.D., M.S. | |
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN | 311 |
G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., M.A., Litt.D., D.Sc., M.D., Ch.M., F.R.C.P. | |
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PROGRESS SHOWN IN EVOLUTION | 327 |
Julian Sorell Huxley, M.A. | |
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MIND IN EVOLUTION | 340 |
C. Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S., LL.D., D.Sc. | |
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CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION | 355 |
Horatio Hackett Newman, B.A., Ph.D. | |
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