Volume 8, Number 6 · April 6, 1967
Brains on their Minds
By J.Z. Young
Of Molecules and Men
by Sir Francis Crick
Washington, 99 pp., $3.95
The Biology of Ultimate Concern
by Theodosius Dobzhansky
New American Library, 176 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Human Evolution
by Bernard Campbell
Aldine, 448 pp., $8.95
Biology may be destined to be the science of the future, but there is certainly much about it that is very puzzling at present. Indeed, it is arguable that it can ever be a science of quite the same sort as physics and chemistry, because it has to deal with problems and concepts that these sciences can evade, at least in the more superficial parts of their structure. Biologists in particular are obviously expected to have a view about the status of man himself and the nature of the means that he uses to obtain information about the world and to describe it. Indeed, if the human biologist were really able to tell us what we want to know about ourselves, his account would be at the center of all science and indeed of all knowledge. The information about the knower should in principle comprise all that is known.
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