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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    III. The Advancement of Man Such being the biological background, what of the advancement of man ? Through his manifold alternative inheritances, what a man shall become is determined by the conditions under which he develops to a greater extent than in any other organism. The lot of given individuals and societies is enormously alterable and improvable by change of conditions, by inventions, by increase and dissemination of knowledge. The tremendous changes in the state of the Germanic races in the last 20,000 years have been brought about, for better or worse, by this [73]