The Grand Strategy of Evolution: The Social Philosophy of a Biologist

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Introduction iii
• Contents xv
• Part I - The Ethics and Morality Of Evolution 19
• The Grand Strategy Of Evolution 21
• Chapter II - The Evolution of Individuality 40
• Chapter III - Fitness and Adaptation 62
• Part II - Nature's System of Self-Administra­ Tion and Self-Control 83
• Chapter IV - Life: Its Origin, Agencies, Habitat, And Growth 85
• Chapter V - Nature's Dual Administrative Sovereignty 114
• Chapter VI - Benevolence and Discipline 129
• Part III - The Architonics of Evolution 169
• Chapter VII - Architecture in Nature as the Ex­ Pression of Cooperative Nature­ Action 171
• Chapter VIII - Vital Action Versus Nature-Action As Expressed in Architectural Plans and in Phylogeny 188
• Chapter IX - The Triaxial System and the Great Highway of Animal Evolution 211
• Chapter X - The Architecture and Cohesive Power of Social Life 252
• Part IV - The Architectonics of Mental Evolution 283
• Chapter XI - The Orientation of Mental Imagery To Nature-Action as a Means To Constructive Conduct 285
• Chapter XII - The Compulsion of Nature-Action In Science, Religion, Art, And Government 302
• Part V - The Architectonics of Social Evolution 329
• Chapter XIII - Mental Imagery as a Factor In Social Growth 331
• Chapter XIV - Class Functions and Voluntary Sub­ Mission to Leadership. 358
• Chapter XV - The New Leviathan 377
• Summary 412
• Appendix - The Message of the Biologist 415
• Index 427

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