The Origin Nature and Evolution of Protoplasmic Individuals and their Associations. Protoplasmic Action and Experience

Content: 
Other Pergamon publications of related interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
GENERAL PREFACE, Pages xi-xxii
INTRODUCTION: Biological Concepts Necessary to an Evolutive Consideration of Living Beings, Pages xxiii,xxv-xxviii
CHAPTER 1 - EVOLUTION: Concepts of Evolution and of Living Beings; the Main Stages in Biological Evolution, Pages 1-13
CHAPTER 2 - THE ORGANISM: Its Essential Individuality, Nature, in Energy Terms; Way of Formation; its Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Origin, Pages 15-31
CHAPTER 3 - EXPERIENCE: Experience, Essential Property of the Organisms of Living Beings, Pages 33-41
CHAPTER 4 - THE MEDIUM: The Reality which Surrounds the Creature Modelling and being Modelled by its Experience, Pages 43-50
CHAPTER 5 - THE SOMA: Phylogenesis, Ontogenesis and the Nature of the Soma, the Essential Link Between the Organism and its Medium, Pages 51-58
CHAPTER 6 - THE BIOSPHERE: The Spatial and Temporal Environment Connecting Biological and Geological Evolution, Pages 59-66
CHAPTER 7 - FEEDING AND NUTRITION: Concepts of Feeding and Nutrition; a Study from the Evolutionist Standpoint, Pages 67-95
CHAPTER 1 - THE PROTOPLASM AS INTERPRETED THROUGH ITS PROCESS OF ORIGIN: The origin of primeval protoplasm as culminating from the evolution of its “aliment”, Pages 101-118
CHAPTER 2 - THE NATURE OF THE PROCESS IN THE FIRST STAGE OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: The evolution of protoplasmic magma, Pages 119-130
CHAPTER 3 - PROTOPLASMIC ACTION AND EXPERIENCE: The protoplasm's form of energy: how this is applied and replaced, Pages 133-151
CHAPTER 4 - PROTOPLASM, WHICH FIRST PRODUCES ALL BIOLOGICAL ENERGY: The proportion of energy of the protoplasm's aliment which is used in protoplasmic, cell and animal work, Pages 152-160
CHAPTER 5 - GENERAL VIEW OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OF THE PROTOPLASM, IN PARTICULAR THE HETEROTROPHOUS PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUAL: The joint evolution of protoplasmic individuals, their medium and relationship with their ambient sources of matter and energy, Pages 163-178
CHAPTER 6 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF THE PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUAL: Biological heredity and protoplasmic heredity, Pages 179-199
CHAPTER 7 - THE EVOLUTIONARY INFLEXION FROM HETEROTROPHOUS TO AUTOTROPHOUS PROTOPLASM: The protoplasm's conquest of chemical energy in the primitive reducing atmosphere, Pages 201-216
CHAPTER 8 - A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE CELL AS A GUIDE TO EVOLUTION IN ASSOCIATIONS OF PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUALS: An evolutionist approach to the cell and synthesis of cytological information, Pages 217-253
CHAPTER 9 - THE ASSOCIATION OF AUTOTROPHOUS PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUALS: The first type of association of protoplasmic individuals, Pages 255-298
CHAPTER 10 - THE ASSOCIATION OF NEOHETEROTROPHOUS PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUALS: The second type of association among protoplasmic individuals, Pages 299-321
CHAPTER 11 - THE HETEROTROPHOUS ASSOCIATION OF PROTOPLASMIC INDIVIDUALS: The third type of association of protoplasmic individuals, where cell action begins, Pages 323-359
CHAPTER 12 - AN INTERPOLATION ON BIOLOGICAL HEREDITY AT THE PROTOPLASMIC LEVEL: Notes on the ontogenesis and reproduction of protoplasmic individuals and their associations, Pages 361-399
CHAPTER 13 - OBSERVATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE HETEROTROPHOUS ASSOCIATION: The gradual integration of the associative activity among protoplasmic individuals in this association until they achieve discontinuous “cell actions”, Pages 401-432
INDEX, Pages 433-439