Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 18

Chapter One Darwin in Argentina

pp.：  19 – 64

1. The Crisis of 1874

pp.：  24 – 40

2. Darwinism Ascendant

pp.：  41 – 51

3. Darwinism in Disarray

pp.：  52 – 64

Chapter Two Conflicting Systems

pp.：  65 – 102

1. Progress or Regress? Evolution or Extinction?

pp.：  65 – 71

2. Unity or Diversity?

pp.：  72 – 75

3. Natural Selection vs. Aesthetic Selection

pp.：  76 – 89

4. The Question of Spiritualism. The Philosophical Crisis of Darwinism

pp.：  90 – 99

Conclusion

pp.：  100 – 102

Chapter Three Francisco Javier Muñiz (1795–1871)

pp.：  103 – 114

The Muñi-Felis Bonaerensis (1845)

pp.：  109 – 114

Chapter Four Hermann Burmeister (1807–1891)

pp.：  115 – 130

History of Creation (1870)

pp.：  120 – 130

Chapter Five Francisco P. Moreno (1852–1919)

pp.：  131 – 142

Letter to His Father, Francisco F. Moreno (1875)

pp.：  135 – 136

Letter to His Father, Francisco F. Moreno (1875)

pp.：  137 – 142

Chapter Six Domingo F. Sarmiento (1811–1888)

pp.：  143 – 178

Sheep Growing. Letter to the Editor of The Boston Daily Advertiser, September 19, 1865

pp.：  148 – 150

Lecture on Darwin (1882)

pp.：  151 – 178

Chapter Seven Eduardo Holmberg (1852–1937)

pp.：  179 – 212

A Struggle between Two Parties (1875)

pp.：  184 – 200

Charles Robert Darwin (1882)

pp.：  201 – 212

Chapter Eight Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911)

pp.：  213 – 236

Phylogeny—The Principles of Transformationist Classification Based on Natural Laws and Mathematical Proportions (1884)

pp.：  218 – 227

Vision and Reality (Allegory for Phylogeny, 1889)

pp.：  228 – 236

Chapter Nine José Ingenieros (1877–1925)

pp.：  237 – 254

Simulation in the Struggle for Life (1900)

pp.：  241 – 247

On the Inferior Races (1905)

pp.：  248 – 254

Chapter Ten Carlos Octavio Bunge (1875–1918)

pp.：  255 – 278

Travels through My Lineage (1908)

pp.：  259 – 278

Bibliography

pp.：  279 – 292

Index

pp.：  293 – 297