Abstract
THAT the modern fashions of biochemistry and genetical study have resulted in most valuable contributions to that rather incoherent mass of knowledge which we call biology will be denied by no one; that these methods have severe limitations is not perhaps so clearly realised. Mr. Cunningham, whose marked independence of mind is known and valued, has in this book applied a keen logical intelligence to the theories and concepts arising out of these new disciplines, and has brought out some of their obvious limitations. His aim has been to test the validity of these modern views by applying them to the fundamental questions of biology in order to see whether they supply satisfactory answers.
Modern Biology: a Review of the Principal Phenomena of Animal Life in relation to Modern Concepts and Theories.
By J. T. Cunningham. Pp. xii + 244. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 10s. 6d. net.
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R., E. A Critic of Modern Biology. Nature 122, 566–567 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122566a0
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