Essays of a Biologist

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Julian Huxley. Essays of a Biologist

Essays of a Biologist

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I. PROGRESS, BIOLOGICAL AND OTHER

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II BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

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III ILS N’ONT QUE DE L’ÂME: AN ESSAY ON BIRD-MIND

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IV SEX BIOLOGY AND SEX PSYCHOLOGY

SEX BIOLOGY AND SEX PSYCHOLOGY[27]

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V PHILOSOPHIC ANTS:

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VI RATIONALISM AND THE IDEA OF GOD

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VII RELIGION AND SCIENCE: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

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Julian Huxley

Published by Good Press, 2021

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That is as it may be. Our best course will be to start by examining some of the chief objections to the idea of biological progress, in order to see if they involve errors of thought which we may then avoid.

The most widespread of all the objections raised may, I think, be fairly put as follows: “The fundamental attribute of living beings is adaptation to environment. A man is not better adapted to his environment than the flea which lives upon him as a parasite, or than the bacillus which kills him, nor is a bird better adapted to air than a jelly-fish to water; therefore we have no right to speak of one as higher than the other, or to regard the transition from one type to another as involving progress.”

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