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Footnotes

[1]. For example, by covering Chapters i, ii, iv-xvi, xxviii-xxix, in the first term and Chapters iii, xvii-xxvii, xxx-xxxii in the second.

[2]. Charles Darwin, a distinguished English student of biology, was born in 1809, and died in 1882. His theory was set forth in two famous books, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.

[3]. The most interesting general account of the beginnings of life and the ancestry of man is that given in H. G. Wells’ Outline of History, Vol. I, pp. 3-103. A brief summary of the evidence on which the doctrine of evolution rests may be conveniently found in H. R. Burch and S. H. Patterson, American Social Problems, pp. 12-32.

[4]. For a discussion of these other factors see Vernon Kellogg, Darwinism Today.

[5]. There has been much discussion among scientists as to whether acquired characteristics can be transmitted at all. The best opinion seems to be against such transmission, but some biologists still hold to the belief that transmission is possible, particularly in the lower organisms. For a further discussion see W. E. Castle, Genetics and Eugenics, pp. 26-27.