Last Words on Evolution: A Popular Retrospect and Summary

Though it was my original intention to deliver only two lectures, I have been moved by several reasons to add a supplementary one. In the first place, I notice with regret that...

In the previous chapter I tried to give you a general idea of the present state of the controversy in regard to evolution. Comparing the various branches of thought we found tha...

The controversy over the idea of evolution is a prominent feature in the mental life of the nineteenth century. It is true that a few great thinkers had spoken of a natural evol...

A few months ago the sensational announcement was made that Professor Haeckel had abandoned Darwinism and given public support to the teaching of a Jesuit writer. There was some...

These skeletons of the five living genera of anthropomorpha are reduced to a common size, in order to show better the relative proportions of the various parts. The human skelet...

The genetic relationship of all vertebrates, from the earliest acrania and fishes up to the apes and man, is proved in its main lines by the concordant testimony of paleontology...

The embryos of man (M), the anthropoid ape (gibbon, G), and the bat (rhinolophus, B) can hardly be distinguished in the earlier stage (the upper row), although the five cerebral...