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ADDRESSING a general audience rather than a scientific gallery, Prof. Conklin deals in six lectures with the development of Man. In the first chapter he shows that development is the result of intrinsic factors, implied in the organisation of the germ-cells, and of extrinsic factors, the environmental conditions. The germ-cell is a living individuality, and development is one of its functions. New materials and qualities appear in increasing complexity, and this is due to active combinations and interactions under environmental influence. The hereditary germinal organisation is very complex, but development is no mere unfolding or unpacking. It includes processes of “creative synthesis.
Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men.
By Prof. E. G. Conklin. Pp. xiv + 533. (Princeton: University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1915.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men . Nature 95, 613 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095613a0
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