“The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.” MeanHas BeensProblemHandsMightScienceProcessImpossibleInfluenceEvolutionBiologyArtificialMutationBiological Evolution Author:Hermann Joseph Muller
“There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.” IfsMenFirstsIdeasEarthTurnsProcessInterestCreaturesGloryAdvantageMethodNotesWork OutPermanentCharacteristicsOrgansStatus QuoAdjustmentEugenicsForeshadowing Author:Hermann Joseph Muller
