Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences
Vol. VIII, pp. 197‑403. February 13, 1907.

ASPECTS OF KINETIC EVOLUTION
By O. F. COOK

Index

  • acclimatization 263
  • accommodation differences 202, 235, 236
  • Achillaea 372
  • Aconitum 372
  • acquired characters 222, 319
  • Actaea 371
  • adaptation 211, 276, 283
      • defined 199, 278
  • adaptations, symbasic 220
  • adaptive fitness 222
      • versatility 200
  • adjustment of locomotion 207
  • characters 205
  • African diplopods 269, 312
  • agamic cell-structures 368
  • Agave, heterism of 247
  • agents of evolution 314
  • agricultural instincts 251
  • agriculture, primitive 251
  • albinism 337
  • alternation of generations 240, 366
  • alternative adjustment characters 205
      • heredity 345
  • anthropoids 217
  • antidromous plants 371
  • apaulogamic cell-structures 368
  • apogamic bulblets 383
  • Arctic plants, apogamous 384
      • plover, migrations of 211
  • Aristotle's categories 282
  • arropic species 369
  • artism 235, 250
  • astronomy and biology 356
  • autogamy 377, 384
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  • barley, linic species 377
  • bees, sex-determination of 347
  • biology, compared to astronomy 356
      • human 218
  • bionomy of species 364
  • bovine hybrids 389
  • branch dimorphism 242
  • bud mutations 351
  • variations 354
      • Burbank on Prunus 352
       
  • cacao, dimorphic branches of 242
  • Castilla, dimorphic branches of 242
  • categories of causation 282
  • Cattell, quoted 282
  • cell differentiation 239, 329
  • cellular organization 367
      • structures, three types 238
  • Ceratodon 376
  • cerebral development 217
  • change of seed 262
  • character-unit assumption 339, 342, 353
  • chromomeres 342
  • chromosome purity 337
  • chromosomes 336
      • positional relations of 353
      temporary 338
  • chromatin of hybrids 348
  • chrysomelid beetles, dichromatism of 376
  • civilizations suicidal 217
  • clones, definition of 378
  • clonic conditions 383
      • hybrids 388
      propagation 380
      species 378
      varieties, limitations of 382
  • Cockayne, reference to 259
  • coffee, accommodations 210
      • amelioration of 390
      dimorphic branches of 242
      mutations 253, 271, 275, 325, 386
  • colors of desert animals 213
  • combined forms of diversity 379
  • conjugate cell-structures 368
      • heredity 344
      organisms 330, 349
      periods 365
  • conjugation, evolution of 330
      • nature of 343
  • conscious selection 278
  • conspicuous colors in forests 214
  • constant of variation 315
  • constitution of species 356
  • continuity of evolution 309
  • corn, Indian 264
  • correlation of variations 221
  • cotton acclimatization 20!, 263
      • dimorphic branches 242
      variations 201
  • Coues, on uniformity 291
  • cross-fertilizing adaptations 220
  • crystallization compared to heredity 332
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  • Darwin, G. H., on natural selection 292
  • Darwin, Charles, on variation 229
      • on substitution 28,
  • Darwinia, N. formulae 284
  • Darwinism 223, 230, 320
  • degeneration 255, 273
  • Delphinium 371
  • dendritic conception of descent i
  • descent differences 235
  • desert colors 213
      • plants 213
  • deterioration of varieties 382
      • under inbreeding 381
  • determinant theories 300, 316
  • defined 306
  • DeVries, elementary species 378
      • on mutations 314, 324
      on selection 322
      on uniform species 362
      theory of 387
  • dichromatism 375
  • dimorphic branches 242
  • diplopods, African 269, 312
  • Discaria experiment 258
  • discontinuous motion 309
  • variations 300
  • discriminate mutations 393
  • disjunction 337
  • diversity, conditions of 396
      • of hybrids 388
      reactions 385
  • domesticated species 359
  • domestication of food plants 385
  • dominant characters 337
  • double-celled organisms 344
  • Draba 378, 383
  • dynamic causes 304
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  • educational danger 367
  • elementary species 378
  • elimination 281
  • elk, antlers burdensome 217
  • Engler, on mountain plants 267
  • environment, definitions 223
  • environmental fortuity 215
      • influence 335
      reactions 213
  • ethics of race 335
  • Eucalyptus, metamorphosis 241
  • evening-primrose mutations 387
  • evolution a process 289
      • by restricted descent 378
      defined 277
      theories compared 307
  • evolutionary species 210
  • exaggerated heterism 388
  • explanations of evolution 288
  • expression problem 294
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  • false hybrids 395
  • fasciation 352
  • Ficus 220
  • fig insect 219
  • fish with protective color 214
  • fitness by correlation 221
      • origin of 222
      problem 198
  • forces of evolution 328
  • formulae of evolution 285
  • fortuity 215
      • of environment 218
  • frog with protective color 214
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  • galls, heredity of 352
  • genetic variations 236
  • germinal incompatibility 348
      • selection 301
  • Goniphodesmidae 312
  • graft-hybridism 352
  • growth defined 330
      • stages 235, 237
  • Gulick isolation theory 314, 318, 377
  • Guyer on hybrids 348
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  • Hawaiian snails 377
  • Helix 377
  • heredity, alternative or polar 345
      • and crystallization 332
      and environment 333
      and heterism 353
      concept 327
      in cell-specialization 329
  • hermaphroditism 370
  • heterism 244, 279, 327
      • and heredity 353
      and sex 374
  • heterism defined 235
      • functions of 248, 346
      of clonic hybrids 388
      specialization of 247, 369
  • heteroecism 241
  • heterogamy 384
  • Hieracium, linic species 378
  • Houstonia 372
  • human descent 355
      • evolution 363
  • Huxley, quoted 286
  • Hyatt's evolutionary forces 328
  • hybrids, diversity of 388
      • of clones 388
      like mutations 394
      sterile 397
      various kinds 395
  • hybridization, limits of 394
      • versus selection 390
       
  • inbreeding, effects of 382
  • inconspicuous colors 213
  • infusoria, nuclei of 354
  • integral theory 197
  • intellect over-developed 217
  • interbreeding as evolutionary factor 323
  • intermittent evolution 309
  • intraspecific differences 226, 235
      • figure of descent 197
  • isolation defined 278
      • theory 314
       
  • Jordan, on selection 260
  • Juniperus, metamorphosis 241
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  • karyapsis 397
  • Kelvin, opinion of 343
  • kinetic figure of evolution 323
      • theory defined 295, 302, 306
  • Knowlton, on bird migration 211
       
  • Lamarckian adaptations 230
  • Lamarckian theory 314, 333
  • Lankester, on heredity 333
      • on selection 323
      on useless differences 314
  • laws and processes 289
  • leopard, black 375
  • Liberian fish 214
  • limitations of clonic propagation 380
  • line-bred organisms 377
  • lines, definition of 377
  • linic conditions 383
      • species 377
  • living matter specific 358
  • lizard with protective habits 214
  • Lydekker, on sheep 260
  • Lythrum, heterism of 346, 372
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  • maize varieties, 377, 384
  • mathematical heredity 339
  • Maupas, on nuclei of infusoria 354
  • mechanical theories 319
  • Mendelism and sex 348
  • Mendelian heredity 336
  • Merocheta 312
  • metamorphosis 240
  • metagenesis 240
  • Metcalf, on plasticity 204, 206
  • mice experiments 337
  • millipeds 270, 312
  • mitapsis 338, 397
  • Mivart, on abrupt variations 231
      • on natural selection 283
  • modes of evolutionary motion 286
  • mongrel reversions 388
  • monkeys 217
  • mules sometimes fertile 385
  • mutation theory 308, 313
  • mutations 274
      • degenerative 309, 310
      discriminate 393
      diversity of 387
      of tomato 265
      like hybrids 394
      parallel 221
      post-reproductive 352
      prepotency of 393
      teratic neisms 236
      versus species 310
  • mutative variation 392
  • myxomycetes, accommodation in 208
      • chromatin of 354
       
  • Naegeli's theory 256, 300, 316, 378
  • natural selection 227, 232
      • selection negative 321
  • neism 236, 269
  • neotopism 236, 261
  • network motion 323
  • new characters prepotent 319
      • place effects 236
      variations 269
  • nuclear deterioration 354
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  • OEdogonium 239
  • olfactory cones of millipeds 312
  • organic elasticity 200
      • Utility 215
  • overlapping of generations 367
  • Oxalis 372
  • Oxydesmidae 270
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  • paint-root 257
  • pangenesis 316, 329
  • panmixia 256
  • paragamic cell-structures 368
  • parasitic fungi 241
      • tendencies 217
  • parthenogenesis 398
  • particularization 289
  • pendulum analogy 390
  • pheasants, plumage over-developed 217
  • philosophical systems 296
  • physiological species 210
  • physiology of cells 356
      • of evolution 304
      of species 362
  • pigeon experiment 337
  • plasmapsis 397
  • plasticity in evolution 203
  • Poa 376
  • polar heredity 345, 348
  • politism 242
  • porric species 376
  • porrism 236, 266
  • Portulaca 376
  • positional relations of chromosomes 353
  • post-conjugate heredity 344.
  • predetermination hypothess 327
  • prefiguration hypothesis 327
  • premature socialization 367
  • prepoteacy 231, 271
      • of variations 319
  • preservation of characters 319
  • protective colors 213
  • proterandry in coffee 275
  • proterogyny in coffee 275
  • Prowazek, on chromatin 354
  • Prunus, graft-hybrid 352
  • Ptolemaic astronomers 293
  • pure science 360
  • purity of germ-cells 336
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  • quail, subspecies of 267, 377
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  • race evolution 335
  • rapidity of evolutionary motion 308
  • recessive characters 337
  • reproduction defined 330
  • restricted descent 376, 385, 388
      • descent, theories of 378
  • reticular descent 197
  • reversions 388, 391
  • root-crops, tropical 381
  • ropic species 370
  • Russian thistle 261
  • rust fungi 241
  • rye, a coherent species 384
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  • saltatory evolution 299, 305, 309
  • screech-owls, supersexes of 375
  • secondary sexual characters 346
  • sections of species 364
  • seedless plants 273, 378
  • species unknown 381
  • segregation 278
  • selection defined 278
      • function of 389
      inadequate 198
      induces mutation 392
      in mutation theory 310
      preserves variations 390
      versus hybridization 390
  • selective perfection of adaptations 212
      • restriction of descent 379
  • self-fertilization 377
  • semisexes, definition of 372
  • semisexual species 372
  • sex and Mendelism 348
      • -determination 347, 351
      -differentiation 350, 355
  • sexual characters 373
      • selection 374
      species 372
  • sexuality of conjugate organisms 349
      • of plants 350
  • Shamel, on tobacco 385
  • sheep in tropics 260
  • social organization 217, 242
      • of cells 238
  • socialization, premature 367
  • speciation 205, 276, 279
      • defined 278
      theories of 279
  • species and subspecies 268
      • constitution of 356, 369, 376
      in motion 294, 306
      meaning of 359, 362
      physiology 362
  • specific organization 327
  • spiny plants 258
  • Spirogyra 331
  • spring-blossoming plants 383
  • Standfuss, experiments of 253
  • static theories defined 233, 298, 305
  • stenic species 377
  • stens, definition of 377
  • sterile hybrids 348, 397
  • structure of species 357
  • subsexes, definition of 371
  • subsexual species 371
  • subspecific diversity 379
  • substitution 281
  • supersexes, definition of 375
  • supersexual species 375
  • Swingle, on positional heredity 353
  • symbasic adaptations 220
      • evolution 302
      species 311, 376
  • symbasis, function of 323
  • symbasis defined 277, 317
  • synthetic theory 197
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  • tables comparing theories 307
  • taxonomy inadequate 361
  • temperature range of plants and animals 211
  • teratic neisms 236
  • teratism 236, 272
  • termite organization 243
  • termites, heredity of 345
  • tobacco experiments 385
  • tomato mutations 265
  • topism 236, 257
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  • unconscious selection 278
  • uniformity, conditions of 396
  • uniformity by autogamy 385
  • unisexual coffee mutations 275
  • use and disuse phenomena 254
  • utility, environmental and organic 215
      • of new characters 318
      of sex characters 373
       
  • variation, discovery of 229
  • variations under domestication 360
  • vegetative propagation 366, 381
      • variations 351
      vigor 380
  • Verbascum 249, 371
  • versatility of organisms 200
  • Viola 371, 383
  • Virginia partridge 267
  • vital tension 303, 355
      • network 355
       
  • Wallace, on natural selection 292
  • Washington palm 212
  • wealth and deterioration 218
  • Weismann on heredity 256, 300, 316
  • wheat, linic species 377
  • White on tomatoes 265