Chapters on Evolution: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Chapters on Evolution, credited to Andrew Wilson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Chapters on Evolution by Andrew Wilson. Read in English by J. M. Smallheer Dr. Andrew Wilson FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and zoologist and lecturer in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the preface of this book, he writes: "...the chief aim of the work is to present in a popular and readily understood form, the chief evidences of the evolution of living beings. In this view, whilst I have been content to assume the reality of that process, I have also endeavoured to marshal the more prominent facts of zoology and botany, which serve to prove that evolution, broadly considered is not merely a name for an unknown tendency in nature, but is an actual factor in the work of moulding the life with which the universe teems." - Summary by J. M. Smallheer

Recording facts

• Recording title: Chapters on Evolution
• Author credits: Andrew Wilson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 16:30:38

Catalogue topics

• animals
• plants
• insects
• biology
• botany
• zoology
• evolution
• Darwin

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 00 - Preface — 3:03
2. 01 - The Problem Stated, part 1 — 19:22
3. 02 - The Problem Stated, part 2 — 19:50
4. 03 - The Study of Biology, part 1 — 24:50
5. 04 - The Study of Biology, part 2 — 22:11
6. 05 - The Study of Biology, part 3 — 24:26
7. 06 - The Constitution of the Animal and Plant Kingdoms, part 1 — 19:56
8. 07 - The Constitution of the Animal and Plant Kingdoms, part 2 — 20:57
9. 08 - The Constitution of the Animal and Plant Kingdoms, part 3 — 26:00
10. 09 - Concerning Protoplasm, part 1 — 21:56
11. 10 - Concerning Protoplasm, part 2 — 21:27
12. 11 - Concerning Protoplasm, part 3 — 16:41
13. 12 - The Evidence from Rudimentary Organs, part 1 — 20:30
14. 13 - The Evidence from Rudimentary Organs, part 2 — 24:07
15. 14 - The Evidence from the Tails, Limbs, and Lungs of Animals, part 1 — 22:32
16. 15 - The Evidence from the Tails, Limbs, and Lungs of Animals, part 2 — 19:15
17. 16 - The Evidence from the Tails, Limbs, and Lungs of Animals, part 3 — 19:48
18. 17 - The Evidence Furnished by the Science of Likenesses, part 1 — 19:08
19. 18 - The Evidence Furnished by the Science of Likenesses, part 2 — 19:52
20. 19 - The Evidence Furnished by the Science of Likenesses, part 3 — 23:50
21. 20 - The Evidence from Missing Links, part 1 — 20:20
22. 21 - The Evidence from Missing Links, part 2 — 23:08
23. 22 - The Evidence from Missing Links, part 3 — 18:42
24. 23 - The Evidence from Development. - 1. The Earlier Stages in the Life-History of Animals, part 1 — 21:31

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