Abstract
DR. HURST'S little volume is less stereotyped and more discursive than the usual elementary book on this subject. His nine chapters begin with “The Mystery of Life” and the gene, ending on the experimental creation of new species, the ascent of man and the future of man and mind. The gene is regarded as the origin of life, and the evolution of man and his civilization are briefly traced. While highly speculative in places, yet Dr. Hurst succeeds in bringing out many of the salient recent facts of genetics.
Heredity and the Ascent of Man
Dr.
C. C.
Hurst
By. Pp. ix + 138. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Heredity and the Ascent of Man. Nature 138, 743 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138743e0
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