Nature and Man

Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original magazine edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)


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Edwin Ray Lankester, in his Romanes lecture begins by a statement of the theory of evolution, directing attention to unwarranted inferences commonly drawn by clever writers unacquainted with the study of nature. He described how the change in the character of the struggle for existence, possibly in the Lower Miocene period, which favored an increase in the size of the brain ...