The Laws of Heredity (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Reid, G. Archdall

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1527944352 ISBN 13 : 9781527944350

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Laws of Heredity

HE present volume covers a wider area than my last T 123 Principles of Heredity. N 0 problems can be named of greater importance to the community than those of Heredity. I have tried, therefore, to make the argument as plain as possible to the general reader. And, since facts which we are able to observe and verify for ourselves, are more impressive and valuable intellectually than those we are obliged to accept at second hand, I have used, whenever possible, material that is familiar to every one.

Some biologists may regard Chapter III., which deals with scientific method, as unnecessary and even as impertinent. But every writer hopes to gain wide assent to his reasoning; and, there are, apparently, amongst thinkers about living beings, such fundamental differences of Opinion as to what constitutes evidence, what logical proof, and what science, that no one can hope to secure wide assent unless he first lay down the principles that have guided his own thinking and obtains assent to them. If the history of biology be considered, I believe it will be seen that many of the controversies, in which its students have en gaged, arose and persisted merely because the disputants, holding what were really divergent ws as to the nature of science, failed to reach a preliminary agreement with respect to their basic assumptions. As far as my powers permitted, I have followed the rules of procedure that have been enunciated by every authority who has both thought and written about the subject. When these rules have been disregarded, the writers, however right they may be able to prove themselves ultimately, have never expressed their dissent in reasoned statements; they have merely implied it in their methods of work.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1527944352
• ISBN 13: 9781527944350
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 564
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