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"One of the Classics of the Nineteenth Century" 



The Evolution of Man 



A Popular Scientific Study. By ERNEST HAECKEL. Translated 

 from the Fifth ( Enlarged ) Edition by Joseph McCabe. 

 Two volumes, 8vo. With 30 Colored Plates and 512 Other 

 Illustrations, net, $10.00. 



HIS work is a comprehensive statement of the scientific grounds for evo- 

 lution 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 with the highest degree of Haeckel's literary and artistic 



skill. Haeckel has always been distinguished for pressing the combination of the 

 evidence from embryology with the evidence of zoology and paleontology. In the 

 present work he devotes one volume broadlj' to embryology, or the evolution of 

 the individual, and the second to the evolution of the human species, as shown in 

 the comparative 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 the latest (fifth) German edition, to which Haeckel gave six months' hard 

 work, the plan is carried out with great skill, and the illusti'ations 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 comprehensive and scientific 

 treatise on the evolution of man by the greatest living authority on the subject. 

 The English translation is in two volumes, and aims at being especially clear and 

 useful to the general reader. It contains 30 beautiful plates (most by Haeckel 

 and generally colored) and 512 engravings (very many full pages) and 60 

 genealogical tables. 



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