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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND conditions produce other sets. In man, the number of diverse sets that may thus be produced is very great ; although it is, of course, not unUmited. But what the Hmitations are cannot be stated from general biological principles or from what we know of any other organ¬ isms ; they can be discovered only by concrete studies of man himself. Adequate recognition of these facts and principles, which appear fully estabUshed by the advance of genetics, would greatly alter some of the current discussions and attitudes on the relation of biological science to human affairs. The biologist is pained to i find that the medical man resists the introduction of the concept of heredity into the domain of disease. This is because of the current fallacy that what is hereditary is certain, fixed, [63]