HUMAN LIFE 



discussion of the tremendously important 

 and pressing problem of war than the 

 assurance that human evolution will carry 

 us beyond war in another geologic epoch 

 or two, he may be listened to with tolerant 

 interest but he will start nothing to help 

 put an end to war. Of course I think that 

 he really has more to offer. I have even 

 tried to indicate what it is that he can 

 suggest, namely, to fight the false notion 

 that human evolution must be left to 

 natural selection, and that war produces 

 natural selection as a matter of fact war 

 produces artificial selection more than 

 natural selection and a bad or reversed 

 artificial selection at that. He can also 

 encourage the right notion that biological 

 inheritance, especially where already ves 

 tigial, can be largely offset by social 

 inheritance. 



In fact, it is social evolution, not bio 

 logical evolution, that we must chiefly 

 look to for future human progress. Most 

 anthropologists agree that the major 

 difference between present man and prim- 

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