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The Future of Man
The BBC Reith Lectures 1959
Routledge Library Editions: Evolution Series
Author: Medawar P.B.
Language: EnglishKeywords
Red Blood Corpuscles; Larger Families; Future of Man; Constant Net Rate; Biological Evolution; War Time; Biology; BBC Reith Lecture; Human Populations; Vice Versa; Human Intelligence; Great Pox; Darwinism; Matter Fall; Inborn Diversity; Inborn Variation; Evolutionary Darwinism; Net Reproduction Rate; Evolutionary Philosophy; Sickle Cell Trait; Birth Control; Sickle Cell Anaemia; Extinction; Inborn Resistance; Human Extinction; Assortative Mating; Philosophical Darwinism; War Time Change; Simple Mendelian Inheritance; Populations; Genetical Instructions; Reith Lectures; Artificial Selection; Genetics; Hereditary System; Human Genetics; Immunological Defences; Fertility; Grandfather’s Gift; Fitness; Cohort Analysis; Polygenic Inheritance; BBC Reith lectures of 1959
Publication date: 02-2021
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2019
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Hardback
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Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar?s Reith lectures of 1959. The book outlines his predictions about the future estate of man, with the ?process of foretelling, rather than with what is actually foretold?. He asks, can we predict the future size of populations? What is the evidence and theoretical background for the belief that human intelligence is declining? Could human beings become uniformly excellent or is inborn diversity and inequality a necessary part of the texture of human populations? The lectures tried to answer these questions and attempts to end with a definition of the biological standing of man. This book will be of interest to anthropologists, biologists and natural historians.
Introduction 1. The Fallibility of Prediction 2. The Meaning of Fitness 3. The Limits of Improvement 4. The Genetic System of Man 5. Intelligence and Fertility 6. The Future of Man Notes
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