Bylo vremya, kogda naturalisty dumali, chto zhivotnye sovsem na nas ne pohozhi. Vse povedenie ih, povadki i vsyakoe umenie budto by splosh' instinktivnye, vrozhdennye. Dejstvuyut oni, kak avtomaty, po programme, zaklyuchennoj s rozhdeniya v nasledstvennosti. No bylo i tak, chto uchenye utverzhdali sovsem obratnoe: zhivotnye ochen' pohodyat na nas. Reshilas' eta problema sovsem nedavno. Ran'she zoologi vsyo bol'she izuchali ubityh zhivotnyh po shkuram i kostyam, chasto privezennym izdaleka, vysushennym, zaspirtovannym. Sravnivali, opisyvali, rassuzhdali. Uspehi byli bol'shie, no pochti vse - v takih naukah, kak anatomiya, morfologiya, sistematika, faunistika, embriologiya. Neploho byli razrabotany i teoriya evolyutsii, fiziologiya, ekologiya, genetika i drugie vazhnye biologicheskie znaniya... This book, "S utra do vechera," by I.I. Akimushkin, is a replication of a book originally published before 1969. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.