Animal


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1 General theories about the animal nature.
2 Characteristics of animal life, the animal soul.
3 Animal sensitivity, its degrees and differentiations.
4 Animal memory, imagination, and intelligence.
5 Animal appetite, desire and emotion in animals.
6 Locomotion, degrees of animal motility.
7 Sleeping and waking in animals.
8 The distinction between plants and animals in faculty and function, cases difficult to classify.
9 The distinction between animal and human nature.
10 Comparison of brutes and men as animals.
11 Comparison of animal with human intelligence.
12 The habits or instincts of animals, specifically animal behavior re.
13 The conception of the animal as a machine or automaton.
14 The classification of animals.
15 General schemes of classification, their principles and major divisions.
16 Analogies of structure and function among different classes of animals.
17 Continuity and discontinuity in the scale of animal life, gradation from lower to higher forms.
18 The anatomy of animals.
19 Physical elements of the animal body, cellular structure and the formation of tissue.
20 The skeletal structure.
21 The visceral organs.
22 The utility or adaptation of bodily structures.
23 Animal movement.
24 Comparison of animal movement with other kinds of local motion.
25 The cause of animal movement, voluntary and involuntary movements.
26 The organs, mechanisms, and characteristics of locomotion.
27 Local motion within the animal body.
28 The ducts, channels, and conduits involved in interior bodily motions.
29 The circulatory system, the motions of the heart, blood, and lymph.
30 The glandular system, the glands of internal and external secretion.
31 The respiratory system, breathing, lungs, gills.
32 The alimentary system, the motions of the digestive organs in the nutritive process.
33 The excretory system, the motions of elimination.
34 The brain and nervous system, the excitation and conduction of nervous impulses.
35 Animal nutrition.
36 The nature of the nutriment.
37 The process of nutrition, ingestion, digestion, assimilation.
38 Animal growth or augmentation, its nature, causes, and limits.
39 The generation of animals.
40 The origin of animals, creation or evolution.
41 Diverse theories of animal generation, procreation and spontaneous generation.
42 Modes of animal reproduction, sexual and asexual.
43 Sexual differentiation, its origins and determinations, primary and secondary characteristics.
44 The reproductive organs, their differences in different classes of animals.
45 The reproductive cells and secretions, semen and catamenia, sperm and egg.
46 The mating of animals, pairing and copulation, the breeding of new varieties.
47 Factors affecting fertility and sterility.
48 8d.
49 Comparison of human with animal reproduction.
50 The development of the embryo, birth and infancy.
51 Oviparous and viviparous development.
52 The nourishment of the embryo or foetus.
53 The process of embryogeny, meiosis, fertilization, and mitosis, the stages of foetal growth.
54 Multiple pregnancy, superfoetation.
55 The period of gestation, parturition, delivery, birth.
56 The care and feeding of infant offspring, lactation.
57 Characteristics of the offspring at birth.
58 Heredity and environment, the genetic determination of individual differences and similarities, RNA, DNA, genes, chromosomes, cistrons.
59 The habitat of animals.
60 The geographical distribution of animals, their natural habitats.
61 The relation between animals and their environments.
62 The treatment of animals by men.
63 The taming of animals, domestic breeds.
64 The use and abuse of animals.
65 Friendship or love between animals and men.
66 The attribution of human qualities or virtues to animals, personification in allegory and satire, the transformation of humans into animals.


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