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- General Editor’s Preface
- Preface
- The Organization of Animal Life
Papers Relating to Comparative and Systematic Zoology and the Organization of the Individual
- Revival of Biological Inquiry
- Renaissance of Anatomy
- Beginnings of Comparative Anatomy
- Beginnings of Modern Ornithology
- Birth of Modern Systematic Zoology
- Taxonomy Applied to Man
- Biological Basis of Comparative Anthropology
- Beginnings of Exact Anatometry
- Basic Morphological Types
- Rise of the Tissue Concept
- Naturphilosophie
- Meckel on Method in Anatomy
- Introduction of the Cell Theory
- Establishment of the Unicellular Condition of the Protozoa
- Cellular Basis of Histology
- The Activities of the Animal Organism
Contributions to Physiology
- Early Gropings Toward an Idea of Metabolism
- Circulation Postulated
- Valves Discovered in the Veins
- Proof of Circulation
- Theory of the Circulation
- Discovery of Lymphatic System
- Mechanistic Basis of Physiology
- Early Studies on Respiration
- Direct Observation of Capillary Circulation
- Transfusions Accomplished
- Interpretation of Kidney Function
- First Published Account of Sperm
- The Physics of Flight
- Early Studies on the Mechanics of Circulation
- Reproductive Physiology of Invertebrates
- Parthenogenesis Proven
- Mechanism in the Eighteenth Century
- Solution of Food in the Stomach
- Early Experimental Study on Coagulation
- Respiratory Interdependence of Animals and Plants
- Respiration as Utilization of Oxygen
- Animal Electricity
- Rise of Modern Physiology of Digestion
- Biochemical Nature of Nutrition
- Formation of Sugar in the Liver
- Analysis of Adrenal Function
- Recognition of the Colloid Condition
- Life Existing Independently in an “Internal Environment”
- Physiological Action of a Hormone Demonstrated
- Biochemical Definition of Life
- Biochemical Character of Dietary Deficiency
- The Basis of Animal Behavior
Contributions to Physiological and General Animal Psychology
- Mechanistic Basis of Physiological Psychology
- Early Concept of Cerebral Localization
- Irritability Recognized and Defined
- Recognition of Reflex Action
- Beginnings of Modern Theory of Vision and Color Vision
- Functions of the Dorsal and Ventral Roots of the Spinal Nerves
- Spinal Nerve Roots
- Specific Nerve Energies
- The Speed of the Nerve Impulse
- On the Instincts of Insects
- Conditioned Reflexes
- The Origin and Development of the Individual
- Revival of Descriptive Embryology
- Earliest Illustrated Embryological Treatise
- Epigenetic Theory of Development
- The Quest for the Mammalian Egg
- Early Experimental Studies of “Spontaneous Generation”
- Preformation Theory
- Revival of Epigenesis
- Early Experimental Study of Regeneration
- Doctrine of Preformation
- Early Opposition to Spontaneous Generation
- Materialism, Evolution, and Epigenesis
- Embryology and Evolution
- Germ Layers as Homologies
- Descriptive Embryology Comes of Age
- Experimental Analysis of Developmental Mechanics
- Totipotency of Blastomeres
- The Growth of Isolated Tissue in Vitro
- Cellular Biology
- Description of Cells
- Protozoa Discovered
- Bacteria Described
- Description of Sarcode
- Status of the Protozoa Prior to Enunciation of General Cell Theory
- The General Cell Theory
- Omnis Cellula E Cellula
- Establishment of the Classical Concept of Protoplasm
- Chromosome Cycle Clarified
- Significance of Sexuality
- Protoplasmic Models
- Mechanism of Sex Determination
- Pathology
Contributions to Parasitology and to the Biological Foundations of Pathology
- Germ Theory of Disease
- Pathology as Objective Biology
- Foundations of Modern Medical Physiology
- From Humoral to Anatomical Pathology
- Artificial Active Immunization
- Disease as the Result of Dietary Deficiency
- Alternation of Generations and Hosts
- Foundations of Cellular Pathology
- Determinism and Medicine
- Insect Transmission of Disease
- Immunity via Artificially Attenuated Virus
- Insects as Vectors of Disease
- General Zoological Interpretation of Inflammation
- Substances Which Cannot Be Absent without Injury
- Evolution and Heredity
Papers Related to the Production and Conservation of New Types
- Beginnings of Modern Paleontology
- Evolution as Deterioration
- Population and Nutrition
- Evolution through Environmentally Produced Modification
- Geological History Reasoned from Paleontology
- Geology and Organic Evolution
- Joint Publication of Darwin’s and Wallace’s Arguments in Favor of Natural Selection
- The Defense of Darwin
- Morphology, Embryology, and Evolution
- Theory of Pangenes
- Oceanographic Evidence of Geological History of Land Masses
- That Transmissible Variations Arise from Modifications of a Hereditary Substance
- Human Inheritance
- Evolution and Variation
- Chromosomal Basis of Mendelian Inheritance
- Creative Evolution
- Zoogeography
- Effects of Geographical Isolation
- The Depths of the Sea
- Delineation of Zoogeographical Areas
- Index