ABSTRACT
The operation of the adapted mind fills biology. E. S. Russell gives some quotations from Sir Charles Sherrington, which further shows the two levels at work—the instinctive level which dominates science and the one which is comparatively free. The adapted mind is very clearly at work in biology, deflecting reason in accordance with the promptings of Nature. The perusal of Dr. Needham’s book, Man a Machine, shows very clearly that the fundamental condition which shapes scientific investigation in biology is the constitution of the human being. Methodology is shaped and limited by the nature of the human body and its senses. Interpretation of experiment is shaped by the constitution of the human mind. Dr. Needham is a man as well as biologist, and so he employs the higher and freer outlook of the individual as well as the communal outlook of science.
