Evolution
Walter Kidd, M.D., F.R.S.E.
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Description
Walter Kidd, a doctor and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, wrote Initiative in Evolution. Witherby printed the book in London in 1920, with many pictures. Kidd had earlier written a book defending use inheritance.
His preface casts science as a court. The Great War, he says, imposed a long vacation on speculative biology. The old case of Lamarck against Weismann waited unheard through the fighting. Now the term has come to hear it afresh. Kidd pleads for the plaintiff, the Lamarckian side. He casts himself as junior counsel, free to question even the highest legal lords. Readers get a lively brief in a famed fight over how traits pass down.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Walter Kidd, M.D., F.R.S.E. |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 554 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |