Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: East , Edward Murray (1924), Mankind at the crossroads, Ayer Co Pub, Retrieved on 2012-04-26Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: social science Memes
26 APR 2012
Interest in Genetics of "Lesser" Animals Betrays our Conn...
Genetics has enticed a great many explorers during the past two decades. They have labored with fruit-flies and guinea-pigs, with sweet peas and corn, with thousands of animals and plants in fact, and they have made heredity no longer a mystery but an exact science to be ranked close behind physics and chemistry in definiteness of conception. One is inclined to believe, however, that the unique magnetic attraction of genetics lies in the vision of potential good which it holds for mankind rat...If we were not related to them, then there would be little scientific interest in exploring them.