Abstract
CONSIDERING the good work which Prof. Cope has done in the cause of evolution, the present collection of essays appears to us disappointing. Originally published from time to time as independent lectures or articles in journals, they are now republished in the form of a book, apparently without any revision, and certainly without any such revision as would have been required to constitute them a connected treatise. The consequence is that instead of a systematic work on “The Origin of the Fittest,” we have a number of disjointed papers bound up together, the larger number of which contain more or less close repetitions of parts of the others—sometimes in the form of long quotations, at other times without special reference. The effect of such frequent reduplications is somewhat tedious, and might easily have been avoided by slightly modifying the constituent essays.
The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution.
By E. D. Cope, &c. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.)
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ROMANES, G. The Origin of the Fittest . Nature 36, 505–506 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036505a0
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