130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
P.B. Medawar
