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The origin of life and the evolution of living things: by Olan R. Hyndman. 648 pages, 16 × 24 cm. New York, Philosophical Library, 1952.Price, $8.75

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1952
Tongue: English
Weight: 85 KB
Volume: 254
Category: Article
ISSN: 0016-0032
DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90919-8

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✦ Synopsis

It takes an inordinate amount of courage to run counter to the accepted theories now being taught. This the author, Olan R. Hyndman, possesses for he proposes this type of a theory and his book of some 650 pages is an acute treatment of a fascinating and absorbing toplc--the origin of life.

For many decades biologists have held that a fortuitous mutation is the fundamental mechanism of evolution. In his new theory Dr. Hyndman proposes that the fundamental influence is environmental in nature and the changes in the germ plasm--as he calls it--are wholly subject to the operation of natural (physical) laws. He holds that the genes are stimulable, that is, subject to change and the change is structural as opposed to the mutative change.

The "Origin of Life" is a difficult, albeit absorbing, book and though the environmental approach may not be accepted, it presents a thoroughly stimulating picture of how man began.

I. M. LEVITT

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