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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![PROMETHEUS means ; equally great changes can, therefore, be similarly brought about in this or otlier races. These are facts of human biology that cannot be altered by anything learned of the biology of other organisms. All groups of organ¬ isms have some common features ; but every group has, too, its distinctive features. When the biologist, from his knowledge of other organisms, is tempted to dogmatize concerning the possibilities of human development, let him first ask himself : How correctly could I predict the behaviour and social organization of ants from a knowledge of the natural history of the oyster ? Man difíers from other organisms in these respects certainly as much as the ant does from the oyster ; for these distinctive aspects of his biology only the study of man himself is relevant. [74]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18032576_0077.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
