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Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar¿s Reith lectures of 1959. The book outlines his predictions about the future estate of man.

Originally published in 1957, The Uniqueness of the Individual is a collection of 9 essays dealing with some of the central problems of biology.

This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning.

Excerpt from The Future of Man: The Bbc Reith Lectures, 1959No one need be ashamed of his Shortcomings as a 'hu man biologist'. A human biologist must be demographer, geneticist, anthropologist, historian, psychologist and sociologist all in one, and much else besides, he must also be a fairly reasonable sort of human being, and no one can be all of these things. What is written here is therefore the product of a certain Combination of knowled...

Excerpt from The Future of Man: The Bbc Reith Lectures, 1959 No one need be ashamed of his Shortcomings as a 'hu man biologist'. A human biologist must be demographer, geneticist, anthropologist, historian, psychologist and sociologist all in one, and much else besides, he must also be a fairly reasonable sort of human being, and no one can be all of these things. What is written here is therefore the product of a certain Combination of knowl...

To those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the scientist's calling. He deflates the myths surrounding scientists, invincibility, superiority, and genius instead, he argues that it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the makeup of a scientis...

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