The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff

About this book

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. Metchnikoff's scientific papers have remained largely untranslated into English. Assembled here, annotated and edited, are the key evolutionary biology papers dating from Metchnikoff's earliest writings (1865) to the texts of his mature period of the 1890s.

Contents

Preface. Introduction. 1. On the Developmental Life-History of Myzostomum (1866). 2. On the Embryonic Development of Lower Crustacea (1866). 3. Anthropology and Darwinism (1875). 4. Essay on the Question About the Origin of Species (1876). 5. Comparative Embryological Studies (1881-1885). 6. Embryological Studies on Medusae: On the Evolutionary Origins of the Primary Tissues (1866). 7. The Struggle for Existence Between Parts of the Animal Organism (1892).

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