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Breath of Life.
Title:
Breath of Life.
Author:
Burroughs, John.
ISBN:
9781775568629
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (311 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Preface -- I The Breath of Life -- II The Living Wave -- III A Wonderful World -- IV The Baffling Problem -- V Scientific Vitalism -- VI A Bird of Passage -- VII Life and Mind -- VIII Life and Science -- IX The Journeying Atoms -- X The Vital Order -- XI The Arrival of the Fit -- XII The Naturalist's View of Life.
Abstract:
Whether the evolution of the human mind from the animal was by insensible gradations, or by a few sudden leaps, who knows? The animal brain began to increase in size in Tertiary times, and seems to have done so suddenly, but the geologic ages were so long that a change in one hundred thousand years would seem sudden. "The brains of some species increase one hundred per cent." The mammal brain greatly outstripped the reptile brain. Was Nature getting ready for man? The air...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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