Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.
- Herbert Spencer Jennings
- Date:
- [1925]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Credit: Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND sets of inherited characteristics ; the decision as to which shaU be produced depending on the environment. The axolotl may be compared to an unedu¬ cated man, the amblystoma to an educated one. The educated man has characteristics very diverse from those he would possess if uneducated. We say, when we think of this fact, that these are acquired characters, environmental characters, due to educa¬ tion. This is correct ; but there is a tendency to go farther and say that these are not inherited characters. This is a mistake—unless we are pre¬ pared to cancel in Mo the designation inherited characters. The character¬ istics of the educated man are his native, inherited characters, just as truly as are any that he has. Forali his characteristics depend on the con- [57]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18032576_0060.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
