• natural selection
• Natural variation with in species
• Traits that are adaptive to a given environment will allow an individual organism to be more successful to live long enough to reproduce

• Inheritance of accquired characteristics/habits
• Environments act on species
• Species become more complex w/ time--> progress

• Left no room for Lamarck's theory, stricter form of Darwinism
• Weismann is a famous Neo-Darwin (German Biologist proposing Germ Plasm Theory)

• Had no interest in Lamarck until Darwin came along and looked into the past to challenge Darwin simply because they did not like Darwins theory
• George Bernard Shaw and Butler (english novelist, social/politcal thinker)
• Excludes room for Darwins theory in Lamarcks

Technique used by Post-Modernist to draw attention in a novel that an outher is writing it and that it is fictional.

e.g. Jack saying all plots lead to death in White Noise

Something real being shown as rediculous.

e.g. SIMUVAC excercise--> meaninglessness of structure of government, organization, philosophy, system  to try to control the world.

• Author of General Anatomy
• Emphasized belief in tissues being smallest unit of organs.
• Similar to how chemicals are broken down into elements, so must organs be broken down into tissues.
• Believed in 21 diffrent kinds of tissue that made up the body

• Author of The Physical Basis of Mind
• Believed there was too much emphasis on the cell and not the nerve fiber itself.
• Emphasized examining how the cells connected and interacted with organs and the body as a whole

• Finished Cell Theory=cell is the smallest unit of the body
• Compared individual to a society in which one individual cell (the citizen) funtioned and did specific jobs in relation to other cells making each other dependent
• Author of Cellular Pathology

• German Biologist
• Neo-Darwinist
• Proposed Germ Plasm Theory
• Created Modern Synthesis- Combined Darwinism with Mendelian genetics