Synopsis
""Control of Heredity"" is a scientific study of the origins of evolution and degeneracy, written by Casper Lavater Redfield and published in 1903. The book explores the concept of heredity and how it influences the development of living organisms over time. Redfield delves into the mechanisms of heredity, including the role of genes and genetic variation, and how they contribute to the evolution and degeneration of species. He also discusses the impact of environmental factors on heredity and how they can influence the genetic makeup of a population. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the field of genetics and provides insight into the complex processes that govern the inheritance of traits in living organisms. It is a seminal work in the history of genetics and remains relevant to modern discussions of evolution and heredity.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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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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