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

  • Herbert Spencer Jennings
Date:
[1925]
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    PREFACE this is not to be lightly undertaken ; it throws all into confusion ; it dis¬ credits what science has pronounced ; it is avoided. Theory and facts become hopelessly at variance, yet they con¬ tinue to rest side by side in a single framework. Such has been the course of events in the science of genetics. The hen of MendeHan theory has hatched a brood of swans. She would fain claim them as her own, but they have lost all semblance of chicks. [7]