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The Factors of Organic Evolution

by Herbert Spencer

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Two parts, printed in The Nineteenth Century in April and May 1886, were reissued as this book in 1887 with some cut passages restored. Herbert Spencer's preface frames the central question as whether changes produced by use and disuse of parts are inherited, alongside the natural selection of favourable variations. He says the answer bears on psychology, ethics and sociology as well as biology. The opening section recalls how opinion on the origin of animals and plants stood in confusion within the memory of men now in middle life.

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Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer assembled an ambitious philosophical system linking psychology, sociology, ethics, biology, and political thought. Born in Derby in 1820, he trained as a civil engineer before journalism and independent scholarship became his principal work.

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Pages
52
Language
English
Genre
Biology
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