The Meaning of Evolution

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Natural History of Ideas
2. Evolution vs. Epigenesis in Embryogenesis
3. The Theory of Evolutionary Recapitulation in the Context of Transcendental Morphology
Early Recapitulation Theorists
Naturphilosophie and Transcendental Morphology
Oken's Transcendental Morphology
Evolutionary Recapitulationism of Tiedemann, Treviranus, and Meckel
Von Baer's Critique of Recapitulation Theory
4. Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Species Change
Serres, Grant, Green, and Lyell on Recapitulation and Evolution
Darwin's Theories of Species Change
Natural Selection as the Mechanism of Progressive Evolution
5. Darwin's Embryological Theory of Progressive Evolution
The Embryological Model as Formulated in the Notebooks
Owen's Rejection of Recapitulation and Evolution
Darwin's Knowledge of Von Baer
Historical Evaluation of Darwin's Principle of Recapitulation
Recapitulation in the Essays the Impact of Agassiz's Fishes, 1842-1844
Owen, Chambers, and Milne-Edwards, 1844-1846
The Embryology of Barnacles and the Criteria of Progressive Development, 1846-1854
Huxley's Objections to Recapitulation and Darwin's Experiments
Embryological Recapitulation in the Origin of Species
The Role of Recapitulation in the Descent of Man
The Logic of Darwin's Theory of Evolution
6. The Meaning of Evolution and the Ideological Uses of History
Bibliography
Index