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This collection of essays demonstrates the width of Darwin's
interests and ability as a biologist. The theory of evolution by
natural selection was, of course, his most important achievement
and is covered in three of the essays: Wilkie presents Darwin's
theory in its historical setting and relates it to the earlier work
by Buffon and Lamarck; Haldane discusses the theory of evolution by
natural selection, as postulated by Darwin, and assesses its
validity in the light of subsequent research; and Challinor
considers the apparent discrepancy between some of the fossil
evidence and Darwin's theory, a problem which Darwin himself
appreciated and discussed in The Origin of Species. The other
essays deal with subjects about which Darwin wrote separate books.
The essay by Bell is concerned with the movement of plants in
response to light; that by Marler with communication between
animals and that by Whitehouse with cross- and self-fertilization
in plants.
Agnes Arber's international reputation is due in part to her
exceptional ability to interpret the German tradition of
scholarship for the English-speaking world. The Mind and the Eye is
an erudite book, revealing its author's familiarity with philosophy
from Plato and Aristotle through Aquinas to Kant and Hegel; but it
is not dull, because the quiet enthusiasm of the author shines
through. In this book she turns from the work of a specialist in
one science to those wider questions which any scientist must ask
at intervals. What, in short, is the relationship between the eye
that sees and the mind that weighs and pronounces? An important
feature of this Cambridge Science Classics reissue is the
introduction provided by Professor P. R. Bell, who as a Cambridge
botany student at the time that Agnes Arber was writing The Natural
Philosopby of Plant Form, is uniquely able to set The Mind and the
Eye in the context of contemporary biological research.
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