The Evolution of Man

A POPULAR SCIENTIFIC STUDY

by Ernst Haeckel

Translated from the Fifth (enlarged) Edition by Joseph McCabe
[Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited]
WATTS & CO.
17 Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
1912

Contents

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
[GLOSSARY]
[TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE]
[TABLE: CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIMAL WORLD]
[Chapter I. THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION]
[Chapter II. THE OLDER EMBRYOLOGY]
[Chapter III. MODERN EMBRYOLOGY]
[Chapter IV. THE OLDER PHYLOGENY]
[Chapter V. THE MODERN SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION]
[Chapter VI. THE OVUM–THE AMŒBA]
[Chapter VII. CONCEPTION]
[Chapter VIII. THE GASTRÆA THEORY]
[Chapter IX. THE GASTRULATION OF THE VERTEBRATE]
[Chapter X. THE CŒLOM THEORY]
[Chapter XI. THE VERTEBRATE CHARACTER OF MAN]
[Chapter XII. THE EMBRYONIC SHIELD–GERMINATIVE AREA]
[Chapter XIII. DORSAL BODY–VENTRAL BODY]
[Chapter XIV. THE ARTICULATION OF THE BODY]
[Chapter XV. FŒTAL MEMBRANES AND CIRCULATION]
[Chapter XVI. STRUCTURE OF THE LANCELET AND THE SEA-SQUIRT]
[Chapter XVII. EMBRYOLOGY OF THE LANCELET AND THE SEA-SQUIRT]
[Chapter XVIII. DURATION OF THE HISTORY OF OUR STEM]
[Chapter XIX. OUR PROTIST ANCESTORS]
[Chapter XX. OUR WORM-LIKE ANCESTORS]
[Chapter XXI. OUR FISH-LIKE ANCESTORS]
[Chapter XXII. OUR FIVE-TOED ANCESTORS]
[Chapter XXIII. OUR APE ANCESTORS]
[Chapter XXIV. EVOLUTION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM]
[Chapter XXV. EVOLUTION OF THE SENSE-ORGANS]
[Chapter XXVI. EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANS OF MOVEMENT]
[Chapter XXVII. EVOLUTION OF THE ALIMENTARY SYSTEM]
[Chapter XXVIII. EVOLUTION OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM]
[Chapter XXIX. EVOLUTION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS]
[Chapter XXX. RESULTS OF ANTHROPOGENY]
[INDEX]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

GLOSSARY