From the Greeks to Darwin 



An Outline of the Development 

 of the Evolution Idea 



By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, LL.D., D.Sc. 



Da Costa Pkofkssor oi' Zoulogy, Columbia Univkksity 



Second Edition Cloth 8vo 2jo pages $2.00 net 



The Initial Volume of the ''Columbia University Biological Series" 



The Anticipation and Interpretation of Nature. — Among the 

 Greeks. — The Theologians and the Natural Philosophers. — 

 The Evolutionists of the Eighteenth Century. — From La- 

 marck to St. Hilaire. — Darwin. — Index. 



" This is an attempt to determine the history of Evolution, its devel- 

 opment and that of its elements, and the indebtedness of modern to 

 earlier investigators. The book is a valuable contribution ; it will do 

 a great deal of good in disseminating more accurate ideas of the ac- 

 complishments of the present as compared with the past, and in broad- 

 ening the views of such as have confined themselves too closely to the 

 recent or to specialties. ... As a whole the book is admirable. The 

 author has been more impartial than any of those who have in part an- 

 ticipated him in the same line of work.'' — T/ie A^ation. 



"But whether the thread be broken or continuous, the history of 

 thought upon this all-important subject is of the deepest interest, and 

 Professor Osborn's work will be welcomed by all who take an intelli- 

 gent interest in Evolution. Up to the present, the pre-Darwinian evo- 

 lutionists have been for the most part considered singly, the claims of 

 particular naturalists being urged often with too warm an enthusiasm. 

 Professor Osborn has undertaken a more comprehensive work, and 

 with well-balanced judgment assigns a place to each writer." — Prof. 

 Edward B. Poulton, in Nature^ London. 



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