" One of the classics of the nineteenth century." 



The Evolution of Man 



A Popular Scientific Study 

 By Ernst Haeckel 



Professor at Jena University 



Translated from the Fifth (enlarged) Edition by 

 Joseph McCabe 



Two volumes, 8vo, with 30 Colored Plates and 512 other Illustra- 

 tions, together with 60 Genealogical Tables . . Net, $10.00 

 New Cheaper Edition. 2 vols. Illustrated. Net, $5.00 



The work is a comprehensive statement of the scientific 

 grounds for evolution as applied to man. It does not deal 

 with religious controversies, and is scientific throughout. 

 The work is unique in design, which is carried out in the 

 last edition with the highest degree of Haeckel's literary 

 and artistic skill. Haeckel has always been distinguished 

 for pressing the combination of the evidence from embry- 

 ology with the evidence of zoology and paleontology. In 

 the present work he devotes one volume broadly to embry- 

 ology, or the evolution of the individual, and the second to 

 the evolution of the human species, as shown in the com- 

 parative anatomy, zoology, and paleontology. The last few 

 chapters deal in detail with the evolution of particular 

 organs right through the animal kingdom: the eye, ear, 

 heart, brain, etc. Every point is richly illustrated from 

 Haeckel's extensive knowledge of every branch of biology 

 and his well-known insistence on comparative study. 



The work is written for the general reader, all technical 

 terms being explained, and no previous knowledge being 

 assumed ; but the scientific reader, too, will find it a unique 

 presentation of all the evidence for man's evolution, and 

 especially as a study of embryonic development in the light 

 of race-development. 



In this edition, to which Haeckel gave six months* hard 

 work, the plan is carried out with great skill, and the illus- 

 trations are very fine. All the most recent discoveries in 

 every branch of science involved are included. It is a 

 thoroughly up-to-date, non-controversial, most comprehen- 

 sive, and scientific treatise On the evolution^ man by the 

 greatest living authority on the subject. 



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