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The mechanistic conception of life : biological essays
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- Creator
- by Jacques Loeb ..
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- English
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [1912]
- [©1912]
- Physical Details
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- 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00784486
- Reprinted from various sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The mechanistic conception of life.--The significance of tropisms for psychology.--Some fundamental facts and conceptions concerning the comparative physiology of the central nervous system.--Pattern adaptation of fishes and the mechanism of vision.--On some facts and principles of physiological morphology.--On the nature of the process of fertilization.--On the nature of formative stimulation (artificial parthenogenesis)--The prevention of the death of the egg through the act of fertilization.--The role of salts in the preservation of life.--Experimental study of the influence of environment on animals