Control of Heredity (Classic Reprint): A Study of the Genesis of Evolution and Degeneracy - Couverture souple

Casper Lavater Redfield

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330321871 ISBN 13 : 9781330321874

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the science of heredity and how traits pass through generations, with practical ideas about how environment, use, and age influence evolution. This edition dives into how intellectual power, physical traits, and even famous lineages may reflect natural laws at work.

Structured to guide curious readers through key ideas, the book blends historical examples with a discussion of theories about inheritance, variation, and evolution. It emphasizes how careful study of birth patterns, family lines, and the timing of reproduction can illuminate the paths of human and animal development.

• Clear explanations of heredity, variation, and selection and how they relate to real-world examples


• Discussion of growth, aging, puberty, and how these factors affect inheritance


• Analyses of eminent families and famous figures to illustrate inheritance patterns


• Thoughtful exploration of degeneration, race, and the limits of heredity without sensationalism

Ideal for readers interested in the history of genetics, evolutionary ideas, and the science behind heredity in both people and animals.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Travelers tell us that monkeys will watch men around a camp fire, and that as soon as the men leave, the monkeys will occupy their places, warming themselves till the fire goes out. The monkeys can appreciate the warmth coming from the fire, but they do not know enough to keep it up by piling on more wood. Much less do they know how to start a fire when they want it. If we should assume these monkeys sitting around a fire and engaged in evolving a theory of combustion, we would have a parallel to those biologists who are engaged in trying to give us a chemical formula for heredity without having the least idea of how to manipulate the forces of evolution so as to originate any desired line of development, or to maintain it for succeeding generations when the advantageous variation has been originated by accident. Knowledge that carbon unites with oxygen in certain definite proportions during combustion is both interesting and useful, but its usefulness is secondary to the usefulness of knowing how to build a fire when wanted, and to maintain and control it when it is built. Selection has been an instrument by which breeders have, in a few generations, vastly improved our domestic animals, but confessedly selection, as applied to the lower animals, is not applicable to civilized man. In the preparation of the following pages it has been my object to provide a simple and practical process of lighting and controlling the fires of evolution, particularly in their application to man.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to acc

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330321871
• ISBN 13: 9781330321874
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 367
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