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The Story of Evolution
Joseph McCabe
Book · General readers · Public domain
About this work
McCabe, Haeckel's English translator, tells the whole story in one narrative. Popular accounts like this show how the theory was presented to the public, which is often more confidently than in technical work.
- Author
- Joseph McCabe
- Published
- 1912
- Written for
- General readers
- Licence
- Public domain. The full text is loaded from the source below and evaluated section by section.
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Contents
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- s01Preface · Chapter I. The Discovery Of The Universeabout 4,620 words
- s02Chapter II. The Foundations Of The Universeabout 3,450 words
- s03Chapter III. The Birth And Death Of Worldsabout 5,411 words
- s04Chapter IV. The Preparation Of The Earthabout 4,782 words
- s05Chapter V. The Beginning Of Lifeabout 4,493 words
- s06Chapter VI. The Infancy Of The Earthabout 5,586 words
- s07Chapter VII. The Passage To The Landabout 4,278 words
- s08Chapter VIII. The Coal-Forestabout 4,412 words
- s09Chapter IX. The Animals Of The Coal-Forestabout 4,127 words
- s10Chapter X. The Permian Revolutionabout 5,353 words
- s11Chapter XI. The Middle Ages Of The Earthabout 4,166 words
- s12Chapter XII. The Age Of Reptilesabout 4,541 words
- s13Chapter XIII. The Bird And The Mammalabout 4,632 words
- s14Chapter XIV. In The Days Of The Chalkabout 5,019 words
- s15Chapter XV. The Tertiary Eraabout 4,313 words
- s16Chapter XVI. The Flower And The Insectabout 5,736 words
- s17Chapter XVII. The Origin Of Our Mammalsabout 6,015 words
- s18Chapter XVIII. The Evolution Of Manabout 5,981 words
- s19Chapter XIX. Man And The Great Ice-Ageabout 5,377 words
- s20Chapter XX. The Dawn Of Civilisationabout 6,254 words
- s21Chapter XXI. Evolution In Historyabout 5,722 words
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