The History of Creation

Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes, Volume 1

Ernst Haeckel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429664359
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century. Haeckel looks at Darwin's reform of Descent Theory and its establishment through the doctrine of selection. He introduces Descent Theory into the systematic classification of animals and plants and finds a "natural system" on the basis of genealogy - that is, to construct hypothetical pedigrees for the various species of organisms. The book will be of interest to those studying natural history and the origins of modern scientific thought, it will appeal to researchers both in the natural sciences and in history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Author’s Preface to the English Edition
• Editor’s Preface to the New English Edition
• Chapter I Nature and Importance of the Doctrine of Filiation, or Descent Theory
• Chapter II Scientific Justification of the Theory of Descent. History of Creation According to Linnæus
• Chapter III The History of Creation According to Cuvier and Agassiz
• Chapter IV Theory of Development According to Goethe and Oken
• Chapter V Theory of Development According to Kant and Lamarck
• Chapter VI Theory of Development According to Lyell and Darwin
• Chapter VII The Theory of Selection (Darwinism).
• Chapter VIII Transmission by Inheritance and Propagation
• Chapter IX Laws of Transmission by Inheritance
• Chapter X Adaptation and Nutrition. Laws of Adaptation
• Chapter XI Natural Selection by the Struggle for Existence. Cellular Selection and Personal Selection
• Chapter XII Division of labour and Divergence of Forms. Progress and Retrogradation
• Chapter XIII The Individual Development of Organisms. The History of the Development of the Animal Tribes
• Chapter XIV Migration and Distribution of Organisms. Chorology and the Ice Period of the Earth
• Chapter XV Theory of the Development of the Universe and of the Earth. Spontaneous Generation. The Carbon Theory. The Plastid Theory