Search Results: what is physical life its origin by william hanna thomson

Dodd, Mead & Co., 1909 Book. Good. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Bumping to spine ends and to corners. Covers a little soiled. name on front endpapers, o/w clean.

N. Y.: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1909. cloth hard cover is in very good condition with some wear to extremeties with no dust jacket. boards are green cloth with gold gilt lettering to cover and spine. has a name in pencil on fly page otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. 206 pages includes index.. First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead. 1909. First Edition. NF, sm bumps & rubs .

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New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1909. FIRST EDITION. With half-title and 1 plate. Green cloth, gilt spine and gilt title on front cover, rear cover with some scuff marks, corners slightly bumped; text is clean and bright. A very good copy. First edition of an important examination of the origin of life from the perspective of a physician. With this work, Thomson intended to "show that enough has been demonstrated already to prove that the hypothesis of earthly life ever having had a spontaneous, or mechanical, or physico-chemical origin, is wholly untenable" (Preface, p. vi). Additionally, he delves into several perspectives on the question of the origin of physical life, including that of Darwin and his contemporaries, presenting as many facets as he can. He also discusses reproduction and heredity, unicellular and multicellular organisms, adaptations, and the "great food question," in which he posits that all life requires food or sustenance of some sort. He uses Darwin's eat or be eaten theory… Read More