Dialectics of Nature Author:Frederick Engels One of the basic books of Marxism, the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism, this covers natural science, including basic forms of matter, motion, heat, electricity, astronomy and anthropology as it was understood in the 1880s. — A chapter of particular interest is "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man." Includes bibliogr... more »aphy and index.« less