Evolution created 9/15/2004

This CD, with 93 books, focuses on Evolution, including Forerunners of Evolution, Creationism (Opponents of Evolution), and Broad Applications of Evolution (including Social Darwinism and Eugenics).

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Table of Contents

Forerunners of Evolution

William Osmer

• A Dissertation on Horses, 1756

Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)

• The System of Nature
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1854)

• Equinoctial Regions of America
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) (1731-1802)

• The Botanic Garden (poem) 1788
• part 1
• part 2

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Evolution

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• Coral Reefs
• The Descent of Man
• The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
• Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom
• Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals
• The Formation of Vegetable Mould
• Insectivorous Plants
• Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
• On the Origin of Species (first edition)
• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (sixth edition)
• The Power of Movement in Plants
• South American Geology
• Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volcanic Islands
• Voyage of the Beagle
• About Darwin
• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Darwin and Modern Science by A.C. Seward
• Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller, translated by W.S. Dallas
• Life and Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• More Letters of Charles Darwin edited by his son Francis Darwin
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Alfred Wallace (1823-1913)

• The Malay Archipelago
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Is Mars Habitable?

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

• Science and the Hebrew Tradition (book)
• Essay 1, the Method of Zadig
• Essay 2, the Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
• Essay 3, Lectures on Evolution
• Essay 4, Interpreters of Genesis and Interpreters of Nature
• Essay 5, Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
• Essay 6, the Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
• Essay 7, Hasisdra's Adventure
• Essay 8, the Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
• Autobiography and Selected Essays
• The Circulation of the Blood
• The Conditions of Existence Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings
• Coral and Coral Reefs
• A Critical Examination of "On the Origin of Species"
• Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"
• Critiques and Addresses
• The Darwinian Hypothesis
• Darwiniana, Volume 2
• Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays
• Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
• Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
• Geologic Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
• Lectures and Essays
• Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley by Leonard Huxley
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
• On the Brain
• On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
• On Some Fossil Remains of Man
• On the Study of Zoology
• The Origin of Species
• The Origination of Living Beings
• The Past Condition of Organic Nature
• The Perpetuation of Living Beings
• The Present Condition of Organic Nature
• Science and Education
• Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's Origin of Species
• Yeast

Jean Henri Fabre (1825-1895)

• Bramble Bees and Others translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Fly translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Life of the Spider
• The Mason Bees translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• More Hunting Wasps translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
• The Wonders of Instinct
• About Fabre
• Fabre, Poet of Science by G. -V. Legros, translated by Bernard Miall

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1913)

• The Evolution of Man, a Popular Scientific Study
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

• The Antiquity of Man

E.H. Aitken

• Concerning Animals and Other Matters

Henry Bates

• The Naturalist on the River Amazon

Thomas Bett

• The Naturalist in Nicaragua

Hugo De Vries

• Species and Varieties, their Origin and Mutation

Robert Leighton

• Dogs and All About Them

Joseph McCabe

• The Story of Evolution

Jane Newell

• Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part 1, 1888

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Creationism (Opponents of Evolution)

• In His Image by William Jennings Bryan
• History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John Draper
• History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (2 volumes in one file)
• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

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Broad Applications of Evolution (including Social Darwinism and Eugenics)

• Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles Ellwood
• Origin and Nature of Emotions by George Crile
• The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes by Robert Yerkes, 1916
• Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman, 1922
• The Physiology of Taste by Brillat Savarin
• Searchlights on Heath: The Science of Eugenics by B.G. Jefferis and J.L. Nichols, 1920
• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche