id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18911 Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher) Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 .txt text/plain 6807 299 56 not, in fact, denote any particular science but is a generic term general are the phenomena of life related to those of the non-living In its bearing on man's place in nature this question is one of the merely mechanical principles of nature, much less can we explain them; biologist of to-day views the matter differently; and I shall give his nature and origin of organic adaptations. life is "response to the order of nature." This seems a long way from Without attempting adequately to illustrate the nature of organic found in certain cases, including animals as highly organized as Such combinations appear in definite series, the nature of which may fundamental problem is, how far the process may be mechanically this problem relates to the origin of organic adaptations, the But Darwin himself did not consider natural selection as an adequate mutations, any adequate general theory of evolution must explain the ./cache/18911.txt ./txt/18911.txt