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PROFS. GEDDES and J. Arthur Thomson have added yet another to the large number of books already existing which are designed to deal with evolution in a manner suited to the needs both of the beginner in serious study and of the general reader. The reputation of the authors will have led us to expect at least accuracy in the statement of facts, and this anticipation is certainly fulfilled in the little volume before us. Apart from the region of fact, we seem to discern a twofold influence at work, leading, on one hand, to a caution in interpretation so extreme as sometimes, we fear, to confuse the inquirer; and admitting, on the other, a boldness of speculation which is somewhat likely to disconcert him.
Evolution.
By Prof. Patrick Geddes Prof. J. Arthur Thomson. Pp. 248. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) (London: Williams and Norgate, n.d.) Price 1s. net.
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D., F. Evolution . Nature 87, 548–549 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087548b0
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