Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen; gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge

Abstract

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IN tracing the genealogy of our race, Prof. Hseckel, while availing himself of the gradual changes in the fauna of the earth during geological periods, and of the gradation of living animal forms, takes as the most important clue in his difficult task the facts of human embryology. This close connection is constantly kept in view, and by its aid not only does he trace, as in the twenty-second chapter of his “Schopfungsgeschichte,” the philogeny of man as a compound organism (Person), but extends the same process to the separate organs of the human body and the faculties of the human mind. The chapters which are occupied by this investigation are the most interesting in the book, full of ingenious suggestions, and well repaying the reader who brings a sound knowledge of embryology and comparative anatomy to their study.

Anthropogenie oder Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen; gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge,

von Ernst Hæckel. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1874.)