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(mentioned in vol. ii. p. 14) of the organic history of the earth during which the deposition of the strata containing fossils took place. The vertical lines separate the classes and sub-classes of vertebrata from one another. The tree-shaped and branching lines, by their greater or lesser number and thickness, indicate the approximate degree of development, variety, and perfection, which each class probably attained in each geological period. In those classes which, on account of the soft nature of their bodies, could not leave any fossil remains (which is especially the case with Prochordata, Acrania, Monorrhina, and Dipneusta) the course of development is hypothetically suggested on the ground of arguments derived from the three records of creation—comparative anatomy, ontogeny, and palæontology. The most important starting-points for the hypothetical completion of the palæontological gaps are here, as in all cases, furnished by the _fundamental law of biogeny_, which asserts the inner _causal-nexus existing between ontogeny and phylogeny_. (Compare vol. i. p. 310, and vol. ii. p. 200; also Plates VIII.-XIII.) In all cases we have to regard the individual development (determined by the laws of Inheritance but modified by the laws of Adaptation) as short and quick repetitions of the palæontological development of the tribe. This proposition is the “ceterum censeo” of our theory of development.

The statements of the first appearance, or the period of the origin of the individual classes and sub-classes of vertebrate animals (apart from the hypothetical filling in mentioned just now), are taken as strictly as possible from palæontological facts. It must, however, be observed, that in reality the origin of most of the groups probably took place one or two periods earlier than fossils now indicate. In this I agree with Huxley’s views; but on Plates V. and XIV. I have disregarded this consideration in order not to go too far from palæontological facts.

The numbers signify as follows (compare also Chapter XX. and vol. ii. pp. 204, 206):—1. Animal Monera; 2. Animal Amœbæ; 3. Community of Amœbæ (Synamœbæ); 4. Ciliated Infusoria without mouths; 5. Ciliated Infusoria with mouths; 6. Gliding worms (Turbellaria); 7. Sea-sacks (Tunicata); 8. Lancelet (Amphioxus); 9. Hag (Myxinoida); 10. Lamprey (Petromyzontia); 11. Unknown forms of transition from single-nostriled animals to primæval fishes; 12. Silurian primæval fish (Onchus, etc.); 13. Living primæval fishes (sharks, rays, Chimæræ); 14. Most ancient (Silurian) enamelled fishes (Pteraspis); 15. Turtle fishes (Pamphracti); 16. Sturgeons (Sturiones); 17. Angular-scaled enamelled fishes (Rhombiferi); 18. Bony pike (Lepidosteus); 19. Finny pike (Polypterus); 20. Hollow-boned fishes (Cœloscolopes); 21. Solid boned fishes (Pycnoscolopes); 22. Bald pike (Amia); 23. Primæval boned fishes (Thrissopida); 24. Bony fishes with air passage to the swimming bladder (Physostomi); 25. Bony fishes without air passage to the swimming bladder (Physoclisti); 26. Unknown forms of transition between primæval fishes and amphibious fishes; 27. Ceratodus; 27_a_. Extinct Ceratodus from the Trias; 27_b_. Living Australian Ceratodus; 28. African amphibious fishes (Protopterus) and American amphibious fishes (Lepidosiren); 29. Unknown forms of transition between primæval fishes and amphibia; 30. Enamelled heads (Ganocephala); 31. Labyrinth toothed (Labyrinthodonta); 32. Blind burrowers (Cæciliæ); 33. Gilled amphibia (Sozobranchia); 34. Tailed amphibia (Sozura); 35. Frog amphibia (Anura); 36. Dichthacantha (Proterosaurus); 37. Unknown forms of transition between Amphibia and Protamnia; 38. Protamnia (common primary form of all Amnion animals); 39. Primary mammals (Promammalia); 40. Primæval reptiles (Proreptilia); 41. (Thecodontia); 42. Primæval dragons (Simosauria); 43. Serpent dragons (Plesiosauria); 44. Fish dragons (Ichthyosauria); 45. Teleosauria (Amphicœla); 46. Steneosauria (Opisthocœla); 47. Alligators and Crocodiles (Prosthocœla); 48. Carnivorous Dinosauria (Harpagosauria); 49. Herbivorous Dinosauria (Therosauria); 50. Mæstricht lizards (Mosasauria); 51. Common primary form of Serpents (Ophidia); 52. Dog-toothed beaked lizards (Cynodontia); 53. Toothless beaked lizards (Cryptodontia); 54. Long-tailed flying lizards (Rhamphorhynchi); 55. Short-tailed flying lizards (Pterodactyli); 56. Land tortoises (Chersita); 57. Birds—reptiles (Tocornithes), transition form between reptiles and birds; 58. Primæval griffin (Archæopteryx); 59. Water beaked-animal (Ornithorhynchus); 60. Land beaked-animal (Echidna); 61. Unknown forms of transition between Cloacals and Marsupials; 62. Unknown forms of transition between Marsupials and Placentals; 63. Tuft Placentals (Villiplacentalia); 64. Girdle Placentals (Zonoplacentalia); 65. Disc Placentals (Discoplacentalia); 66. Man (Homo pithecogenes, by Linnæus erroneously called, Homo sapiens.)

PLATE XV. (_After page 369, Vol. II._)

_Hypothetical Sketch of the Monophyletic Origin and the Diffusion of the Twelve Species of Men from Lemuria over the earth._ The _hypothesis_ here geographically sketched of course only claims an entirely _provisional value_, as in the present imperfect state of our anthropological knowledge it is simply intended to show how the distribution of the human species, from a single primæval home, may be _approximately_ indicated. The probable primæval home, or “Paradise,” is here assumed to be _Lemuria_, a tropical continent at present lying below the level of the Indian Ocean, the former existence of which in the tertiary period seems very probable from numerous facts in animal and vegetable geography. (Compare vol. i. p. 361, and vol. ii. p. 315.) But it is also very possible that the hypothetical “cradle of the human race” lay further to the east (in Hindostan or Further India), or further to the west (in eastern Africa). Future investigations, especially in comparative anthropology and palæontology, will, it is to be hoped, enable us to determine the probable position of the primæval home of man more definitely than it is possible to do at present.

If in opposition to our monophyletic hypothesis, the polyphyletic hypothesis—which maintains the origin of the different human species from several different species of anthropoid ape—be preferred and adopted, then, from among the many possible hypotheses which arise, the one deserving most confidence seems to be that which assumes a double pithecoid root for the human race namely, an Asiatic and an African root. For it is a very remarkable fact, that the African man-like apes (gorilla and chimpanzee) are characterized by a distinctly long-headed, or dolichocephalous, form of skull, like the human species peculiar to Africa (Hottentots, Caffres, Negroes, Nubians). On the other hand, the Asiatic man-like apes (especially the small and large orang), by their distinct, short-headed, or brachycephalous, form of skull agree with human species especially characteristic of Asia (Mongols and Malays). Hence, one might be tempted to derive the latter (the Asiatic man-like apes and primæval men) from a common form of brachycephalous ape, and the former (the African man-like apes and primæval men) from a common dolichocephalous form of ape.

In any case, tropical Africa and southern Asia (and between them Lemuria, which formerly connected them) are those portions of the earth which deserve the first consideration in the discussion as to the primæval home of the human race; America and Australia are, on the other hand, entirely excluded from it. Even Europe (which is in fact but a western peninsula of Asia) is scarcely of any importance in regard to the “Paradise question.”

It is self-evident that the migrations of the different human species from their primæval home, and their geographical distribution, could on our Plate XV. be indicated only in a very general way, and in the roughest lines. The numerous migrations of the many branches and tribes in all directions, as well as the very important re-migrations, had to be entirely disregarded. In order to make these latter in some degree clear, our knowledge would, in the first place, need to be much more complete, and secondly, we should have to make use of an atlas with a number of plates showing the various migrations. Our Plate XV. claims no more than to indicate, in a very general way, the approximate geographical dispersion of the twelve human species as it existed in the fifteenth century (before the general diffusion of the Indo-Germanic race), and as it can be sketched out approximately, so as to harmonize with our hypothesis of descent. The geographical barriers to diffusion (mountains, deserts, rivers, straits, etc.), have not been taken into consideration in this general sketch of migration, because, in earlier periods of the earth’s history, they were quite different in size and form from what they are to-day. The gradual transmutation of catarrhine apes into pithecoid men probably took place in the tertiary period in the hypothetical Lemuria, and the boundaries and forms of the present continents and oceans must then have been completely different from what they are now. Moreover, the mighty influence of the ice period is of great importance in the question of the migration and diffusion of the human species, although it as yet cannot be more accurately defined in detail. I here, therefore, as in my other hypotheses of development, expressly guard myself against any dogmatic interpretation; they are nothing but _first attempts_.

INDEX.

A

ABYSSINIANS, ii. 323, 330

Acalephæ, ii. 141

Acœlomi, ii. 148, 151

Acrania, ii. 196, 198, 200, 204

Acyttaria, ii. 51, 62

Adaptation, i. 90, 156, 219

—— actual, i. 225, 231

—— correlative, i. 241

—— cumulative, i. 233

—— direct, i. 225, 231

—— divergent, i. 247

—— indirect, i. 224, 227

—— individual, i. 228

—— irregular, i. 229

—— monstrous, i. 229

—— potential, i. 224, 227

—— sexual, i. 230

—— universal, i. 231

—— unlimited, i. 249

Agassiz, Louis, i. 61

Agassiz’s conception of the universe, i. 65

—— essay on classification, i. 61

—— history of creation, i. 63

—— history of development, i. 64

—— idea of species, i. 65

Albuminous bodies, i. 331

Algæ, ii. 81, 82, 83

Alluvial system, ii. 15

Altaians, ii. 309, 317

Alternation of generations, i. 206

Americans, ii. 309, 318

Amnion animals, ii. 204, 219

Amniota, ii. 204, 219

Amœbæ, ii. 53, 279

Amœboidea, ii. 53

Amphibia, ii. 209, 216

Amphioxus, ii. 198, 285

Amphirrhina, ii. 203, 205

Anamnionata, ii. 204

Animal Plants, ii. 144

Angiospermæ, ii. 83, 111

Annelida, ii. 133, 149, 151

Anorgana, i. 5, 328

Anorganology, i. 6

Anthozoa, ii. 143

Anthropocentric conception of the universe, i. 38

Anthropoides, ii. 270, 275, 292

Anthropolithic period, ii. 15, 17

Anthropology, i. 7

Anthropomorphism, i. 18, 66

Ape-like men, ii. 293, 300

Apes, ii. 241, 268, 270

Arabians, ii. 323, 330

Arachnida, ii. 180, 182

Archelminthes, ii. 148

Archezoa, ii. 132, 134

Archigony, i. 183, 338

Archilithic period, ii. 8, 14

Arians, ii. 323, 331

Aristotle, i. 55, 76

Arthropoda, ii. 132

Articulata, ii. 119

Ascidia, ii. 152, 200

Ascones, ii. 141

Asterida, ii. 164, 166

Atavism, i. 207

Australians, ii. 308, 314

Autogeny, i. 339

B

BÄR, CARL ERNST, i. 109

—— doctrine of filiation, i. 109

—— theory of development, i. 294

—— types of animals, i. 53; ii. 119

Basques, ii. 322

Bathybius, i. 184, 344; ii. 53

Batrachians, ii. 204

Bats, ii. 240, 261

Beaked mammals, ii. 233, 239

—— reptiles, ii. 224, 226

Belief, i. 9; ii. 335

Berbers, ii. 323, 330

Biogenesis, fundamental law of, i. 309; ii. 33

Biology, i. 6

Birds, ii. 204, 226

Brachiopoda, ii. 157

Brain, bladder of, in man, i. 304

—— development of, i. 303

Bruno Giordano, i. 22, 70

Bryozoa, ii. 150, 152

Buch, Leopold, i. 107

Büchner, Louis, i. 110

Buds, formation of, i. 192

C

CAFFRES, ii. 312, 333

Calcispongiæ, ii. 140, 144

Cambrian system, ii. 9, 15

Carbon, i. 330, 335

—— theory of, i. 335

Carboniferous system, ii. 11, 15

Carus Victor, i. 110

Catallacta, i. 51, 59

Catarrhini, ii. 270, 272

Caucasians, ii. 309, 321

Causa finalis, i. 34, 75

Causal conception of the universe, i. 18, 74

Cells, i. 187, 346

—— formation of, i. 347

—— theory of, i. 346

Cell-kernel, i. 188

—— membrane, i. 188

—— substance, i. 186

Cænolithic period, ii. 14, 16

Cephalopoda, ii. 160, 162

Chamisso, Adalbert, i. 206

Change of climate, i. 363

Chelophora, ii. 240, 257

Chinese, ii. 309, 317

Chorology, i. 351

Cloacal animals, ii. 234, 239

Cochlides, ii. 159, 160

Cœlenterata, ii. 136, 144

Cœlomati, ii. 148, 151

Coniferæ, ii. 82, 110

Constructive forces, i. 90, 253, 337

Copernicus, i. 39

Corals, ii. 142, 144

Coreo-Japanese, ii. 309, 317

Cormophytes, ii. 80

Correlation of parts, i. 218

Cosmogeny, i. 321

Cosmological gas theory, i. 323

Crabs, ii. 174, 176

Craniota, ii. 198, 204

Creation, centres of, i. 352

—— the, i. 8

Creator, the, i. 64, 70

Cretaceous system, ii. 12, 15

Crinoides, ii. 166, 171

Crocodiles, ii. 223, 224

Crustacea, ii. 173, 176

Cryptogamia, ii. 80, 82

Ctenophera, ii. 142, 144

Cultivated plants, i. 137

Curly-haired men, ii. 310, 333

Cuttles, ii. 160, 162

Cuvier, George, i. 50

Cuvier’s dispute with Geoffroy, i. 88

—— history of creation, i. 59

—— palæontology, i. 54

—— idea of species, i. 50

—— theory of cataclysms, i. 58

—— theory of revolutions, i. 58

—— types of animals, i. 53; ii. 118

Cycadeæ, ii. 82, 110

Cyclostoma, ii. 202, 204

Cytod, i. 346

D

DARWIN, CHARLES, i. 131

Darwinism, i. 149

Darwin’s life, i. 132

—— travels, i. 132

—— theory of corals, i. 133

—— theory of selection, i. 150

—— study of pigeons, i. 141

Darwin, Erasmus, i. 118

Deciduata, ii. 240, 255

Deduction, i. 85; ii. 357

Democritus, i. 22

Devonian system, ii. 11, 14

Diatomeæ, ii. 51, 60

Dicotylæ, ii. 82, 112

Didelphia, ii. 239

Differentiation, i. 270, 283

Diluvial system, ii. 15

Dipneusta, ii. 204, 212

Divergence, i. 270

Division of labour, i. 247

Domestic animals, i. 137

Dragons, ii. 225

Dravidas, ii. 308, 319

Dualistic conception of the universe, i. 20, 75

Dysteleology, i. 15; ii. 353

E

ECHINIDA, ii. 166, 171

Echinoderma, ii. 163, 166

Edentata, ii. 240, 254

Egg Animals, ii. 132, 134

Eggs, i. 190, 198

Egg of man, i. 190, 297; ii. 279

Egg, cleavage of the, i. 190, 299; ii. 280

Egyptians, ii. 323, 330

Elephants, ii. 257

Empiricism, i. 79; ii. 349

Eocene system, ii. 15, 16

Ethiopians, ii. 323, 330

Explanation of phenomena, i. 29

F

FERNS, ii. 82, 101

Fibrous plants, ii. 82

Final cause, i. 22

Fins, ii. 309, 317

Fishes, ii. 206, 208

Flagellata, ii. 51, 57

Flat-nosed apes, ii. 270, 272

Flat worms, ii. 148, 150

Flint cells, ii. 51, 60

Flowering plants, ii. 82, 108

Flower animals, ii. 143

Flowerless plants, ii. 80, 82

Flying animals, ii. 240, 261

Freke, i. 119

Fulatians, ii. 308, 320

Fungi, ii. 82

G

GANOID FISH, ii. 208, 210

Gastræa, ii. 127, 128, 281

Gastrula, ii. 126, 127

Gegenbaur, i. 312; ii. 179, 193

Gemmation, i. 192

Generation, i. 209

Genus, i. 41

Geocentric conception of the universe, i. 38

Geoffroy S. Hilaire, i. 86, 116

Germans, ii. 323, 331

Germ buds, formation of, i. 193

—— cells, formation of, i. 194

Gibbon, ii. 270, 275

Gilled insects, ii. 174, 176

Gill-arches in man, i. 307

God, conception of, i. 70

Goethe, Wolfgang, i. 80

Goethe’s conception of nature, i. 22

—— discovery of mid-jaw bone, i. 84

—— formative tendency i. 91, 253

—— idea of God, i. 71

—— investigations in nature, i. 81

—— materialism, i. 23

—— metamorphosis, i. 90

—— metamorphosis of plants, i. 82

—— philosophy of nature, i. 81

—— theory of development, i. 92

—— vertebræ of skull, i. 83

Genochoristus, i. 196

Gonochorism, i. 196

Gorilla, ii. 270

Grant, i. 119

Greeks, ii. 323, 331

Gregarinæ, ii. 133, 134

Gynmosperms, ii. 82, 109

H

HALISAURIA, ii. 204, 214

Hare-rabbit, i. 148, 275

Heliozoa, ii. 64

Herbert, i. 119

Heredity, i. 176

Hermaphrodites, i. 196

Herschel’s cosmogeny, i. 321

Holothuriæ, ii. 166, 172

Hoofed animals, ii. 249, 252

Hooker, i. 119

Hottentots, ii. 311, 333

Human races, ii. 296, 305, 308

—— soul, ii. 361

Huxley, i. 119, 145; ii. 268

Hybridism, i. 145, 210, 275

Hydromedusæ, ii. 143, 145

I

ICE PERIOD, i. 367; ii. 17

Indecidua, ii. 241, 249

Individual development, ii. 293

Indo-Chinese, ii. 309, 317

Indo-Germanic, ii. 323, 331

Induction, i. 85; ii. 357

Infusoria, ii. 132, 135

Inheritance, abridged, i. 212

Inheritance, acquired, i. 213

—— adapted, i. 213

—— amphigonous, i. 210

—— conservative, i. 204

—— constituted, i. 216

—— contemporaneous, i. 217

—— continuous, i. 205

—— established, i. 216

—— homochronous, i. 217

—— interrupted, i. 205

—— latent, i. 205

—— mixed, i. 210

—— progressive, i. 213

—— sexual, i. 209

—— simplified, i. 212

—— uninterrupted, i. 205

—— laws of, i. 204

Inophyta, ii. 82, 93

Insects, ii. 184

Insectivora, ii. 241, 259

Instinct, ii. 343

Invertebrata, ii. 118, 195

Iranians, ii. 323, 331

J

JAPANESE, ii. 309, 317

Jews, ii. 323, 330

Jura system, ii. 12, 14

K

KANT, IMMANUEL, i. 101, 321

Kant’s Criticism of the faculty of judgment, i. 105

—— mechanisms, i. 37, 102

—— philosophy of nature, i. 101

—— theory of descent, i. 103

—— theory of development, i. 321

—— theory of the formation of the universe, i. 101

Knowledge, à posteriori, i. 31; ii. 345

—— à priori, i. 31; ii. 344

L

LABYRINTHULEÆ, ii. 51

Lacertilia, ii. 223

Lamarck, Jean, i. 111

Lamarck’s anthropology, i. 115; ii. 264

—— philosophy of nature, i. 112

—— theory of descent, i. 113

Lamarckism, i. 150

Lamellibranchia, ii. 158, 160

Lancelet, ii. 198, 204, 285

Laplace’s cosmogeny, i. 321

Laurentian system, ii. 9, 14

Lemuria, i. 361; ii. 326

Leonardo da Vinci, i. 56

Leptocardia, ii. 196, 204

Leucones, ii. 141

Linnæus, Charles, i. 39

Linnæus’ classification of animals, ii. 118

—— classification of plants, ii. 78

—— designation of species, i. 41

—— history of creation, i. 44

—— system, i. 40

Lubbock, Sir John, ii. 298

Lyell, Charles, i. 126

Lyell’s history of creation, i. 128

M

MAGYARS, ii. 309, 316

Malays, ii. 308, 315

Malthus’ theory of population, i. 161

Mammalia, ii. 231, 239

Man-apes, ii. 271, 275, 292

Marsupials, ii. 236, 239, 290

Matagenesis, i. 206

Materialism, i. 35

Matter, i. 22; ii. 360

Mechanical causes, i. 34, 74

Mechanical conception of the universe, i. 17, 74

Mechanism, i. 37, 102

Mediterranese, ii. 308, 321

Medusæ, ii. 143, 144

Mesolithic period, ii. 14, 20

Metamorphosis of the earth’s strata, ii. 25

Metamorphosis, i. 90

Migration, laws of, i. 373

—— of organisms, i. 354

—— of the human species, ii. 325

—— theory of, i. 367

Mind, i. 22; ii. 360

—— development of the, ii. 344, 360

Miocene period, ii. 15, 16

Miracles, i. 22

Molluscs, ii. 155, 160

Monera, i. 184, 343; ii. 52, 278

Mongols, ii. 308, 316

Monism, i. 34

Monistic conception of the universe, i. 20, 74

Monocottylæ, ii. 82, 112

Monoglottonic, ii. 327, 333

Monogony, i. 183

Monophylites, ii. 44

Monophyletic hypothesis of descent, ii. 44

Monorrhina, ii. 203, 204

Monosporogonia, i. 194

Monotrema, ii. 234, 239

Morphology, i. 21

Morula, ii. 125, 127

Moses’ history of creation, i. 37

Moss animals, ii. 150, 152

Mosses, ii. 82, 97

Müller, Fritz, i. 49, 73; ii. 174

Müller, Johannes, i. 312; ii. 203

Muscinæ, ii. 82, 99

Mussels, ii. 159, 160

Myriapoda, ii. 182, 184

Myxomycetes, ii. 51, 60

N

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, i. 78

Negroes, ii. 309, 313, 333

Nemathelminthes, ii. 149, 150

Newton, i. 25, 106

Non-amnionate, ii. 204, 209

Nubians, ii. 308, 320

O

ŒCOLOGY, ii. 354

Oken, Lorenz, i. 95

Oken’s history of development, i. 293

—— philosophy of nature, i. 96

—— theory of infusoria, i. 97

—— —— protoplasm, i. 97

Olynthus, ii. 141

Ontogenesis, i. 293

Ontogeny, i. 10; ii. 33

Orang, ii. 271, 275

Organisms, i. 5, 328

Organs, i. 5

Origin of language, ii. 302, 327

Osseous fishes, ii. 208, 211

Ovularia, ii. 132, 134

P

PACHYCARDIA, ii. 201

Palæolithic period, ii. 11, 14

Palæontology, i. 54

Palissy, i. 56

Palm ferns, ii. 82, 110

Pander, Christian, i. 294

Papuans, ii. 310, 333

Paradise, ii. 325

Parallelism of development, i. 313

Parthenogenesis, i. 197

Pedigree of amphibia, ii. 209

—— anamnia, ii. 209

—— apes, ii. 270

Permean system, ii. 11, 14

Petrifactions, i. 54

Phanerogama, ii. 80, 82, 108

Philosophy, i. 79; ii. 350

Phylogeny, i. 10; ii. 33

Phylum, ii. 42

Physiology, i. 21

Pithecoid, theory, ii. 356

Placentalia, ii. 240, 244

Planula, ii. 126, 135, 281

Planæa, ii. 125, 127

Planæada, ii. 280

Plasma, i. 185, 330

Plasmogony, i. 339

Plastids, i. 347

Plastids, theory of, i. 347

Platyelminthes, ii. 148, 150

Platyrrhini, ii. 270, 272

Pleistocene system, ii. 15

Pliocene system, ii. 15, 16

Polar man, ii. 308, 317

Polyglottal, ii. 327, 333

Polynesians, ii. 308, 315

Polyphyletic theory of descent, ii. 45

Polyphylites, ii. 45, 303

Polyps, ii. 142

Polyp jellies, ii. 143, 144

Polysporogonia, i. 193

Population, number of, ii. 333

Porifera, ii. 139, 144

Primary mammals, ii. 239, 290

Primary period, ii. 11, 14

Primæval algæ, ii. 82, 84

—— animals, ii. 131, 132

—— history of man, ii. 298

—— men, ii. 325

Primordial period, ii. 9, 14

Prochordata, ii. 278

Progenitors of man, ii. 279, 295

Progress, i. 277, 283

Promammalia, ii. 233, 239

Propagation, i. 183

—— amphigonic, i. 195

—— monogonic, i. 183

—— non-sexual, i. 183

Propagation, sexual, i. 195

—— virginal, i. 197

Protamnia, ii. 289, 295

Protamœbæ, ii. 52

Prothallophytes, ii. 80, 97

Prothallus plants, ii. 80, 97

Protista, ii. 48

Protophyta, ii. 82, 85

Protoplasma, i. 185, 330

Protoplasts, ii. 51, 53

Protozoa, ii. 121, 131, 132

Purpose in nature, i. 19

Purposelessness in nature, i. 20

R

RADIATA, ii. 120

Radiolaria, i. 333, 371; ii. 65

Rapacious animals, ii. 240, 260

Recent system, ii. 15

Reptiles, ii. 222, 224

Rhizopoda, ii. 51, 61

Ringed worms, ii. 149, 150

Rodentia, ii. 241, 257

Romans, ii. 323, 331

Rotatoria, ii. 149, 150

Rotifera, ii. 150, 152

Round worms, ii. 149, 150

Rudimentary eyes, i. 13

—— gristle, i. 12

—— legs, i. 14

—— lungs, i. 289

—— mammary glands, i. 290

—— muscles, i. 12

—— nictitating membrane, i. 13

—— organs, i. 12

—— pistils, i. 15

—— stamens, i. 15

—— tails, i. 289

—— teeth, i. 12

—— wings, i. 287

S

SACK WORMS, ii. 283, 295

Sauria, ii. 222

Schaaffhausen, i. 110

Schleicher, August, i. 108; ii. 301

Schleiden, J. M., i. 109

Science, i. 9; ii. 335

Scolecida, ii. 283, 295

Sea stars, ii. 164, 166

—— cucumbers, ii. 166, 171

Sea dragons, ii. 204

—— lilies, ii. 166, 177

—— nettles, ii. 141, 144

—— urchins, ii. 166, 171

Secondary period, ii. 14, 20

Selection æsthetic, i. 268

—— artificial, i. 152, 170, 254

—— homochromic, i. 263

—— medical, i. 173

—— military, i. 171

—— musical, i. 267

—— natural, i. 168, 255

—— psychical, i. 269

—— sexual, i. 265

—— Spartan, i. 170

Self-division, i. 191

Semites, ii. 322, 330

Serpents, ii. 223

Sexes, separation of, i. 244

Sexual characters, i. 209, 265

Silurian system, ii. 8, 14

Slavonians, ii. 323, 331

Snails, ii. 159, 160

Soul, the, i. 71; ii. 343, 362

Species, i. 41, 273, 304, 311

Specific development, i. 311

Spencer, Herbert, i. 119; ii. 367

Sperma, i. 197

Spiders, i. 180, 182

Spirobranchia, ii. 157, 160

Sponges, ii. 139, 144

Spores, formation of, i. 194

Stemmed plants, ii. 280

Straight-haired men, ii. 309, 314

Struggle for life, i. 161, 252

Synamœba, ii. 125, 280

Systematic development, i. 313

System of animals, ii. 132

—— apes, ii. 270

—— Arabians, ii. 330

—— arachnida, ii. 182

—— Arians, ii. 331

—— arthropoda, ii. 132

—— articulata, ii. 177, 183

—— catarrhini, ii. 270

—— cœlenterata, ii. 144

—— crustacea, ii. 176

—— didelphia, ii. 239

—— echinoderma, ii. 166

—— Egyptians, ii. 330

—— fishes, ii. 208

—— formations, ii. 15

—— Germans, ii. 331

—— gilled Insects, ii. 177

—— Græco-Romans, ii. 331

—— Hamites, ii. 330

—— hoofed animals, ii. 252

—— human ancestors, ii. 295

—— human races, ii. 308

—— human species, ii. 308, 309

—— Indians, ii. 331

—— Indo-Germani, ii. 331

—— insects, ii. 182

—— mammalia, ii. 239

—— mankind, ii. 295

—— marsupials, ii. 239

—— men and apes, ii. 271

—— molluscs, ii. 160

—— monodelphia, ii. 241

—— organisms, ii. 74, 75

—— placentalia, ii. 240

—— plants, ii. 82

—— platyrrhini, ii. 270

—— protista, ii. 51

—— reptiles, ii. 224

—— Semites, ii. 330

—— Slavonians, ii. 331

—— spiders, ii. 182

—— star fishes, ii. 167

—— strata of the earth, ii. 15

—— tracheata, ii. 182

—— ungulata, ii. 252

—— vegetable kingdom, ii. 83

—— vertebrata, ii. 204

—— worms, ii. 150

—— zoophytes, ii. 144

T

TAIL OF MAN, i. 289, 308

Tangles, ii. 61, 82

Tartars, ii. 209, 317

Teleology, i. 100, 291

Teleostei, ii. 208, 211

Teleological conception of the universe, i. 20, 75

Tertiary period, ii. 14, 16

Thallophytes, ii. 80, 82

Thickness of the earth’s crust, ii. 19

Thought, ii. 364

Thread plants, ii. 82, 93

Tocogony, i. 183

Tortoises, ii. 225

Tracheata, ii. 182

Transition forms, ii. 338

Transmutation, theory of, i. 4

Treviranus, i. 92

Trias system, ii. 12, 14

Tuft-haired men, ii. 307, 309

Tunicata, ii. 152, 200

Turbellaria, ii. 283

Turks, ii. 309, 316

U

UNGER, FRANZ, i. 109

Ungulata, ii. 249, 252

Unity in nature, i. 22, 338

Uralians, ii. 309, 317

V

Variability, i. 220

Variation, i. 219

Varieties, i. 276

Vertebrata, ii. 195, 205

Vital force, i. 22, 334

Vitalistic conception of the universe, i. 18

W

Wagner, Andreas, i. 138

Wagner, Moritz, i. 369

Wallace, Alfred, i. 135

Wallace’s chorology, i. 361, 373

—— theory of selection, i. 136

Well’s theory of selection, i. 150

Whales, ii. 240, 251

Will, freedom of the, i. 113, 237, 364

Wolff’s theory of development, i. 293

Woolly-haired men, ii. 307, 309

Worms, ii. 147, 150

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