We consider the Prym map from the space of double coverings of a curve of genus g with r branch points to the moduli space of abelian varieties. We prove that 𝒫:ℛg,r→𝒜δg−1+r/2 is generically injective if We also show that a very general Prym variety of dimension at least 4 is not isogenous to a Jacobian.