Heredity
In the Light of Recent Research

Offers a contemporaneous account of the most important advances in the study of heredity during the beginning of the twentieth century.

L. Doncaster (Author)

9781107401914, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2011

174 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm, 0.2 kg

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. This volume contains the 1921 third edition of L. Doncaster's Heredity in the Light of Recent Research. It offers a contemporaneous account of the most important advances in the study of heredity during the beginning of the twentieth century.

1. Introduction
2. Variation
3. The causes of variation
4. The statistical study of heredity
5. Mendelian heredity
6. Mendelian heredity (continued): the inheritance of colour
7. Some disputed questions
8. Heredity in man
9. Heredity and sex
Appendices
Literature list
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: Genetics [non-medical PSAK]