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The mechanistic conception of life : biological essays (1912)

Author: Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924
Subject: Life (Biology); Biology; Biology -- Philosophy; Mechanism (Philosophy)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press
Year: 1912
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 00784486
Digitizing sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
Book contributor: MBLWHOI Library
Collection: biodiversity; MBLWHOI; blc; americana

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The mechanistic conception of life.--The significance of tropisms for psychology.--Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system.--Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision.--On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.--On the nature of the process of fertilization.--On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis)--The prevention of the death of an egg through the act of fertilization.--The role of salts in the preservation of life.--Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals

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