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The Uniqueness of the Individual
Routledge Library Editions: Evolution Series
Author: Medawar P.B.
Language: EnglishSubject for The Uniqueness of the Individual:
Keywords
Young Man; Uniqueness; Red Blood Corpuscles; Individual; Cryptotis Parva; Nature; Strain CBA; Darwinism; Mediterranean Flour Moth; Evolutionary Darwinism; Vice Versa; Old Age; Large Family; Natural Death; Independent Groups; Biology; Thickened Soles; Scientific Method; Haemolytic Disease; Lamarckism; Transplantation Immunity; Organic Growth; Flexure Lines; Man; Skin Homografts; Human Genetics; Post-reproductive Period; Human Intelligence; Exosomatic Instruments; Genetics; Continuous Compound Interest; Anatomy; Homograft Reaction; Evolution; Potentially Immortal; Evolutionary Mechanisms; Actuary’s Life Table; Homology; Lamarckian Inheritance; Exosomatic Evolution; Sickle Cell Trait; Vermiform Appendix
Publication date: 02-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Originally published in 1957, The Uniqueness of the Individual is a collection of 9 essays published from the ten years preceding publication. The essays deal with some of the central problems of biology. These are among the questions put and answered from the standpoint of modern experimental biology. What is ageing and how is it measured? What theories have been held to account for it, and with what success? Did ageing evolve, and if so how? Is Lamarckism and adequate explanation of evolutionary process? Does evolution sometimes go wrong? Do human beings evolve in a way peculiar to themselves? Other essays touch upon the problems of scientific method and of growth and transformation. This book will be of interest to natural historians, evolutionists and anthropologists.
Introduction 1. Old Age and Natural Death, (1946) 2. An Unsolved Problem of Biology (1952) 3. A Note on ‘The Scientific Method’ (1949) 4. A Commentary on Lamarckism (1953) 5. The Pattern of Organic Growth and Transformation (1954) 6. The Imperfections of Man (1955) 7. Tradition: The Evidence of Biology (1953) 8. The Uniqueness of the Individual (1956) Index