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A Brief Survey of the Field of Organic Evolution1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

George Howard Parker
George Howard Parker
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Harvard University
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Readers of the popular scientific magazines and papers of today are often confronted with the statement of the downfall of evolution; and, though this statement is usually not made in a way that carries conviction, there is a growing feeling among the educated public that behind all this smoke there is some fire. It is the object of this article to make clear the real grounds for this suspicion, and at the same time to give a brief survey of the present state of the theory of organic evolution.

Type
Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1913 , pp. 245 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1913

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