The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Vol. 46: February, 1903 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lankester, E. Ray

 
9781333699345: The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Vol. 46: February, 1903 (Classic Reprint)

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The present study has for its purpose the analysis of the behaviour of the common fresh-water planarian into its com ponent factors. It is well known that, aside from the researches of a few investigators on a small number of forms, we have little detailed knowledge Of the behaviour of lower organisms. It is coming to be realised, too, that knowledge Of what an animal does is just as important in the general study of life phenomena as a knowledge of how it is con structed, or how it develops. But it must be admitted that until quite recent times the study of the activities of living things was a much neglected field in biology. The publication of the 'origin of Species' gave the biological pendulum a swing towards the study Of phylogeny, from which it is only just beginning to return.

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