The evolution of sex / by Professor Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson.

  • Geddes, Patrick, Sir, 1854-1932.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The evolution of sex / by Professor Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    application of biological science not only to investigate and map out these two paths of organic progress, but to illuminate them. Hence we have attempted to indicate the application of the general organic survey, which has been our main theme, to such questions as those of human population and progress, although here, more even than elsewhere, our treatment can be at best only suggestive, not exhaustive. While limits of space have made it impossible to give the botanical side of our sub- ject its proportionate share of attention, our illustrations of the essential facts are sufficient to show the parallelism of the reproductive processes throughout nature. It remains to express our thanks to Professor F. Jeffrey Bell for some valuable suggestions wh!le the work was passing through the press ; to Mr G. F. Scott-Elliot for assistance in summarising certain portions of the literature; and to our engravers, Messrs Harry S. Percy, F. V. M'Combie, and G. A. Morison, especially to the first-named, who has executed the great majority of our illustrations with much care and skill. PATRICK GEDDES. J. ARTHUR THOMSON.