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THE MEANING OF
EVOLUTION

BY

SAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN THE
WEST CHESTER STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
WEST CHESTER, PA.

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The Chautauqua Press
CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK
MCMXIII




COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY


Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1913




CONTENTS


    CHAPTER                                             PAGE

            A FOREWORD                                     1

         I. EVOLUTION BEFORE DARWIN                        7

        II. DARWIN AND WALLACE                            21

       III. THE UNDERLYING IDEA                           44

        IV. ADAPTATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL                 87

         V. ADAPTATION FOR THE SPECIES                   125