The History of Creation Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8. German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... |
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| Title | The History of Creation Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8. German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... Volume 1 of The History of Creation Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8. German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Author | Ernst Haeckel |
| Edition | 4, reprint |
| Publisher | K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jul 2007 |
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