Organic Evolutión

History of evolution.

Classification of organisms.

Geographic distribution.

Bathymetric distribution.

Geologic distribution.

Variation and mutation.

Heredity.

Artificial selection.

Natural selection.

Sexual selection.

Inheritance of acquired modifications.

Orthogenesis and kinetogenesis.

The life cycle.

Recapitulation, extinction.

Coloration and mimicry.

Animal associations. Communalism.

Parasitism and degeneracy.

Adaptive radiation.

Cursorial and fossorial adaptation.

Aquatic adaptation.

Scansorial adaptation.

Volant adaptation.

Cave and deep-sea life.

Desert adaptation.

Fossils: Their nature and interpretation.

Cephalopods.

Insects.

Origin of vertebrates.

Emergence of terrestrial vertebrates.

Rise of reptiles and dominance of dinosaurs.

Beaked dinosaurs and origin of birds.

Origin of mammals and rise ofarchaic mammals.

Incursion of modernized mammals and evolution of carnivores.

Cetaceans.

Proboscideans.

Horses.

Camels.

South american mammal radiation.

The evolution of man: ontogeny and morphology.

The evolution of man: Paleontology; epilogue: The pulse of life.

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