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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    PROMETHEUS the organism that we wish to improve. Man, or any of the complex animals, is to be looked upon as a single organism, temporarily divided into pieces or individuals. These pieces reunite at intervals and again separate. The great organism thus forms a network. The enduring parts of the network are the genes. They form the continuous strands of the net, hving through from generation to generation, and taking part successively in the formation of the bodies of many different individuals. The number of strands or genes in the entire network is very great ; much greater than the large number present in any individual. A different combina- I tion of strands is present in every individual. As the generations pass the combina¬ tion of strands in a given individual [80]