Darwinism to Day a Discussion of Present Day Scientific Criticism of the Darwin
Darwinism to Day a Discussion of Present Day Scientific Criticism of the Darwin
Vernon L Vernon Lyman Kellogg
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Cope's theory may be called one of bathmism (growth-force), kinetogenesis (direct effect of use and disuse and environmental influence), and arch- 2 86 DARWINISM TO-DAY. sesthetism (influence of primitive consciousness). In an essay " first published by Cope in 1871 the following hypotheses were presented. (These hypotheses are stated here in Cope's own words, quoted from the preface of his book "The Origin of the Fittest, " 1887) : "i. The law of repetitive addition, in which the structures of... animals were shown to have originated from simple repetitions of identical elements. "2. The existence of an especial force which exhibits itself in the growth of organic beings, which was called growth-force, or bathmism. "3. That development consists in the location of this energy at certain parts of the organism. "4. That this location was accomplished by use or effort, modifying and being modified by the environment; or the doctrine of kinetogenesis. "5. That the location of this energy at one point causes its abstraction from other points, producing 'complementary diminution' of force at the latter.
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