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The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology

T H HuxleyBiblio.com

The Crayfish An introduction to the study of Zoology Hardcover

2021BIBHB0158736642021. Hardcover. New. About The Book -: In writing this book about Crayfishes it has not been my intention to compose a zoological monograph on that group of animals. Such a work to be worthy of the name would require the devotion of years of patient study to a mass of materials collected from many parts of the world. Nor has it been my ambition to write a treatise upon our English crayfish which should in any way provoke comparison with the memorable labours of Lyonet Bojanus or Strauss Durckheim upon the willow caterpillar the tortoise and the cockchafer. How the careful study of one of the commonest and most insignificant of animals leads us step by step from every-day knowledge to the widest generalizations and the most difficult problems of zoology; and indeed of biological science in general.For whoever will follow its pages crayfish in hand and will try to verify for himself the statements which it contains will find himself brought face to face with all the great zoological questions which excite so lively an interest at the present day; he will understand the method by which alone we can hope to attain to satisfactory answers of these questions; and finally he will appreciate the justice of Diderot�s remark About the Author -: Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS 1825 �1895 was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He is known as ""Darwin's Bulldog"" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The stories regarding Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce were a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career although historians think that the surviving story of the debate is a later fabrication. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day but after an encounter with Robert Chambers the author of Vestiges he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen against whom Huxley also debated about whether humans were closely related to apes. He worked on invertebrates clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later he worked on vertebrates especially on the relationship between apes and humans. After comparing Archaeopteryx with Compsognathus he concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs a theory widely accepted today. The tendency has been for this fine anatomical work to be overshadowed by his energetic and controversial activity in favour of evolution and by his extensive public work on scientific education both of which had significant effects on society in Britain and elsewhere. Huxley's 1893 Romanes Lecture �Evolution and Ethics� is exceedingly influential in China; the Chinese translation of Huxley's lecture even transformed the Chinese translation of Darwin's Origin of Species. The Title 'The Crayfish An introduction to the study of Zoology written/authored/edited by T. H. Huxley' published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121261005 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 398 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Zoology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: hardcover

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Huxley, Julian and Morris, DesmondBiblio.com

The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe with and Addition to the Theory of Sexual Selection and a Foreword by Desmond Morris

19681911London: Jonathan Cape 1968. First edition thus.HUXLEY'S GROUNDBREAKING STUDY OF EVOLVED RITUALIZED BEHAVIOR IN SEXUAL SELECTION. 10.5x18.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to spine 97 pp 2 2 plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.LAID IN: Retrospective review of the book in Nature 25 Sept 2014 pages 484-5. " JULIAN HUXLEY 1887–1975 was an architect of the mid-twentieth-century evolutionary synthesis that merged Darwin's ideas on natural selection with population genetics. Decades before that however he helped to pioneer the field of animal behavior with his groundbreaking work on avian ethology the 1914 Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe. In it he demonstrated how detailed observations of individual birds can prompt profound biological questions and sometimes reveal the outline of the answers. Huxley and his brother Trevenen spent two weeks watching the courtship of great crested grebes Podiceps cristatus. They did so at a reservoir near the Hertfordshire town of Tring now renowned as home to the matchless bird collections of the Natural History Museum. The result was a paper published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1914 and later in slightly abbreviated form as a pocket-sized book. By the month of the brothers' observations the grebes had already paired. Nevertheless male and female whose plumages are virtually identical engaged in striking behaviors such as the "cat attitude" and the "penguin dance" as Huxley colorfully labelled them. These he interpreted as necessary to bring the two birds into what he perceived as the emotional synchrony needed for coition nest-building and egg-laying. To achieve this some behaviors have undergone a gradual change from useful action to symbol to ritual. It was Huxley's landmark paper that identified this process of ritualization in animal behavior he organized a Royal Society symposium to discuss it in 1965. Huxley also realized that ritualization extended to mammals including people. With a sprinkling of references to Dante Plato and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he digresses to muse on how human courtship so often and so predictably proceeds from hand-holding to kissing to more. More formally he realized that behaviors may be shaped by evolution." Jonathan Cape hardcover

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