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THE object of this book, as stated in its preface, is to substitute “pure postulates” for those which are referred to as “postulates of the theory of evolution,” put forward by “many students of nature at the present day.” As examples of these precious pure postulates we may cite the following: (a) The oldest known fossils represent the beginnings of life on the globe (p. 22). (b) The absence of all the intermediate forms between great groups indicates a “transformation and alteration of form rather than an actual higher evolution” (p. 76). (c) “We are not justified in bringing animals, like mammalia, birds, fishes and worms, into genetic connection with plants, like trees, ferns, and mosses” (p. 1.08). (This, we are told in the preface, is the chief postulate.) (d) Explanation of the origin of life is essential to any theory of evolution (pp. 83–108).
The Theory of Evolution in the Light of Facts.
Karl Frank S. J.. With a chapter on Ant Guests and Termite Guests, by P. E. Wasmann. Translated from the German by C. T. Druery. Pp. xii + 241. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 5s. net.
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The Theory of Evolution in the Light of Facts . Nature 90, 670 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090670a0
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