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THIS book could be heartily recommended to readers who wish for a modern presentation of general biological discovery were it not for the pseudo-philosophical limitations which the author imposes upon each and every hypothesis that has been advanced to account for the facts. The arguments that go to prove the truth of evolution are skilfully and attractively marshalled, but that is not the author's chief object. What he aims at is to show that the selection-hypothesis only applies to a limited field, that use-inheritance has its restricted place, and so on; in short, that all our explanations are partial, and that in none of them can we have complete confidence.
Lectures on Biology.
By Dr. Curt Thesing. Translated from the second edition by W. R. Boelter. Pp. viii + 334. (London: J. Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1910.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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Lectures on Biology . Nature 86, 510–511 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086510b0
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