Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    THE QUESTION sorts ? And can anything be done to make a larger proportion of them, or all, develop into desirable individuals ? Much has been learned on these questions since the key to an under¬ standing of the rôles of inheritance and environment in development was recovered just twenty-five years ago. Knowledge has moved rapidly and has, indeed, changed fundamentally within the last ten years, altering the picture as to the relations of heredity and environment. What has gotten into the popular consciousness as Mendelism —still presented in the conventional biological gospels—has become gro¬ tesquely inadequate and misleading ; particularly have its seeming implica¬ tions as to the trivial rôle of environ¬ ment come into a new light. [II]