RLA: Peter Medawar: The Future of Man 6 1959




Reith Lectures Archive: 1948-1975 show

Summary: Biologist and Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Medawar considers the future of human evolution in the final lecture in his Reith Lectures series ‘The Future of Man’. He discusses the possibility of a new, non-genetic, system of inheritance and predicts that certain properties and activities of the brain will affect our evolution in the future.