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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND others in another way, depending on their hereditary genes. It is only against what Davenport has character¬ ized as purely impersonal medicine that the implications of genetic science Ие. The same fallacy reappears in discussions of racial problems. The recent immigrants into the United States show certain proportions of defective and diseased persons ; and we are informed that these deficiencies are unchangeable and heredity will pass them on to a future generation. There is no warrant in the science of genetics for such a statement ; under new conditions they may not appear. It is particularly in connection with racial questions in man that there has been a great throwing about of false biology. Heredity is stressed as all-powerful ; E [65]