Man and his biological world,
Jean, Frank Covert, 1880-
Man and his biological world, by Frank Covert Jean, Ezra Clarence Harrah and Fred Louis Herman... with the editorial collaboration of Samuel Ralph Powers... - Boston New York [etc.] Ginn and company [c1944] - viii, 630, [1] p. illus., diagrs. 23 cm.
Revised edition of v. 2 of the authors' An introductory course in science for colleges, published under the title: Man and the nature of his biological world, 1934.
"References" at end of each chapter.
Life became associated with protoplasm, which requires a constant supply of food // Living organisms must provide for the perpetuation of their own kind // Living things must adjust themselves to their environments // Science has made great discoveries relative to the nature and control of disease // Synthesis and decomposition form a cyle in nature // The adaptations of plants and animals have been seriously disturbed by man // Living organisms have evolved in response to changing environment // Mendel discovered genetic principles which make possible the improvement of all living species // Man's cultural development moved slowly at the outset but has been greatly accelerated by science and invention // Glossary // Index //
44006583
Biology.
QH308 / .J4 1944
571 JEA
Man and his biological world, by Frank Covert Jean, Ezra Clarence Harrah and Fred Louis Herman... with the editorial collaboration of Samuel Ralph Powers... - Boston New York [etc.] Ginn and company [c1944] - viii, 630, [1] p. illus., diagrs. 23 cm.
Revised edition of v. 2 of the authors' An introductory course in science for colleges, published under the title: Man and the nature of his biological world, 1934.
"References" at end of each chapter.
Life became associated with protoplasm, which requires a constant supply of food // Living organisms must provide for the perpetuation of their own kind // Living things must adjust themselves to their environments // Science has made great discoveries relative to the nature and control of disease // Synthesis and decomposition form a cyle in nature // The adaptations of plants and animals have been seriously disturbed by man // Living organisms have evolved in response to changing environment // Mendel discovered genetic principles which make possible the improvement of all living species // Man's cultural development moved slowly at the outset but has been greatly accelerated by science and invention // Glossary // Index //
44006583
Biology.
QH308 / .J4 1944
571 JEA