Evolution and Man's Place in Nature

1893. Calderwood, Scottish philosopher and divine, writes that in this volume he has undertaken discussion of the problem concerning Man's Place in Nature. The discussion proceeds from the standpoint of Evolution of Organic Life, as maintained by Mr. Darwin and by Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace. The main objects are to trace the evidence of man's relation to the continuity of life on the earth, and to describe the distinctive characteristics of human life itself. Contents: Evidence for Evolution; Life in Its Lower and Higher Forms; The Characteristics of Human Life; The Relations of Environment to Life; Heredity and Evolution; Sensory and Rational Discrimination; Animal and Rational Intelligence; and Rational Life. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.