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The Biological Basis of Human Freedom
By Theodosius Dobzhansky
Columbia University Press
New York 1956
Books for Professionals
One of the world's greatist living biologists in this book addresses his thoughts on man's position in the universe to all who are interested in the nature and dignity of man. "The view of 'nature, red in tooth and claw,' in which every living being has only the alternative to 'eat or be eaten' is just as unfounded," say Professor Dobzhansky, "as the sentimentalist view that all is sweetness and light in unspoiled nature."
Others have used -- and are still using -- the findings of biological science to define man in terms of utility. This eminent authority shows that our biological heritage supports and confirms man's individual worth. "in higher organisms, every individual is too valuable to the species to be wasted in the relatively inefficient process of adapting to environmental changes by natural selection.
... When every individual counts in the measure of fitness, genetic specialization is too crude an adaptive instrument ...
