The thing about this book is you need to be a full blown intellectual to read it I unfortunately am not. I yearn to be but the sad truth is I am a low brow kind of reader. Never the less, while I could not follow the depth of euriditin I did enjoy the scope and detail of Thompson's narrative. If you do find you can read this book you are a brilliant man or woman.
This book affords the deep and sensitive mind an I depth romp far deeper and beyond the Ken of such brilliant minds as Von Humbolt or Darwim. But beware because D'arcy Wentworth Thimpson was not only the last of the great polymaths. He may have been the greatest. .
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- A classic of biology and modern science
- First written in 1917, this book was revised by the author in 1942
- Over 500 photographs & drawings
- Reprint of the University Press, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 1942 edition.
About The Author
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of the last Victorian polymaths, possessing an aptitude not only for biology but also for classics, botany, mathematics and physics. He was appointed a professor at Dundee at the remarkably young age of 25. Whilst in Dundee he helped to found the Dundee Social Union and the Medical School, as well as the Zoological Museum which now bears his name.
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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), one of the most distinguished scientists of the modern era, sets forth his seminal "theory of transformation" - that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts but by large-scale transformations involving the body as a whole.
The book begins with studies of organic magnitude, the rate of growth, cellular form and structure, adsorption, and the forms of tissues, then examines a vast spectrum of life forms, and concludes with a comparison of related forms that leads to the theory of transformations.
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