The History of Creation

Ernst Haeckel

1. Nature and Importance of the Doctrine of Filiation, or Descent Theory 2. Scientific Justification of the Theory of Descent. History of Creation According to Linnaeus. 3. The History of Creation According to Cuvier and Agassiz 4. Theory of Development According to Goethe and Oken 5. Theory of Development According to Kant and Lamarck 6. Theory of Development According to Lyell and Darwin 7. The Theory of Selection (Darwinism) 8. Transmission by Inheritance and Propagation 9. Laws of Transmission by Inheritance 10. Adaptation and Nutrition. Laws of Adaptation 11. Natural Selection by the Struggle for Existence. Cellular Selection and Personal Selection 12. Division of Labour and Divergence of Forms. Progress and Retrogradation. 13. The Individual Development of Organisms. The History of the Development of the Animal Tribes 14. Migration and Distribution of Organisms. Chorology and the Ice Period of the Earth 15. Theory of the Development of the Universe and of the Earth. Spontaneous Generation. The Carbon Theory. The Plastid Theory