Volume 28, Number 12 · July 16, 1981
Stretch Genes
By P.B. Medawar
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process
by Charles J. Lumsden, by Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University Press, 428 pp., $20.00
'This book contains the first attempt to trace development all the way from genes through the mind to culture.' The authors' illusion that this is so is owing at least in part to their neglect or ignorance of the thought of many others who have attempted to arrive at a conception of human heredity that brings in minds and culture as well as genes.
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