vi LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



PAGES 



Training Transmissible? — ^Variation and Heredity — Registration 

 of Variations — Are Acquired Gains Entailed? — Natural Selection — 

 Criticisms of Darwin's Theory of Sex Selection — Utility of Courtship 

 — Heredity and Sex Characters — Sex and Evolution — The Isolation 

 Factor — Species and Habitat — Acclimatisation and Biotechnics — 

 Naturalisation — Adaptations Illustrated — Darwinism or Design — 

 Evolution of the Face — Evolution of the Hive— Evolution of Spider's 

 Web — Imperfections in Animals — Summary as regards Factors 

 of Organic Evolution — Different Kinds of Evolution — Social Evo- 

 lution—Holism 9 1 2-1 1 16 



CHAPTER X 



BIOLOGY AMONG THE SCIENCES 



The Position of Biology — The Inter- elations of the Sciences — 

 The Arts with the Sciences — The Sub-sciences of Biology — Their 

 Mapping-out applied to the other Main Sciences — Harmonisation of 

 Specialisms, towards Unity of Science — The Organismal View in 

 Physical Science 1117-1148 



CHAPTER XI 



BIOLOGY OF MAN 



Pedigree of Man — Where Man Emerged — Factors in Man's Evolu- 

 tion — The Beginnings of Society — ^The Nature of Human Progress — 

 Human Origins — An Archaeological Centre and its Record — The 

 Hunting Stage and its Significance — Later Occupational Develop- 

 ments — Cultivated Plants and their Significance — Woman in Early 

 Progress and Onwards — ^Woman as Inventor — The Changing Status 

 of the Sexes — Sex and its Social Control 1149-1190 



CHAPTER XII 

 BIOLOGY IN ITS WIDER ASPECTS 



The Book of Nature — The Cultural Value of Natural History — 

 Man's Attitude to Science — Biology and Health — Pleasure and Pain 

 in Life — Links between Biology and Medicine — Natural Science and 

 Medicin" — The Cell-cycle — Biology and Medicine Again — Medicine as 

 Applied Biology — The Science of Bio-sociology — Biology and Human 

 Life — The Problems of Population — Practical Applications of 

 Biology — The Kingdom of Man — Conquest of Diseases — Man's 

 Influence on Plants — Influence of the Scottish Fauna — Biology and 

 Ethics — Individuality — Psychobiological Concepts and Mytho-poesy 

 — The Relations of Biology to Social Science — Essentials of Sociology 

 — Lessons from Nature — Biology and War — Effects of War on the 

 Race — War and the Struggle for Existence — The Case for Eugenics — 

 Eugenics and Eugamics — Normal and Super-normal Types — Genius 

 — Evils in Organic Lif — Some Biological Views on Education — 

 Education for Life and Happiness — Life-methods in Education 

 — Biologic versus Mechanistic Education — Biological Education — 

 Occupational Education — Universities in Progress — Summary and 

 Plea for Evolutionary Education — Biology and Sociology — Man and 

 Superman — The Beauty of Death — Relativity — Biology and Rela- 

 tivity — Biology and Time-questions — Relativity in Sociology 1191-1383 



