The Trend of the Race1921 |
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ability according alcohol animals assortative mating average number become biological birth rate cause cent character child cities civilization classes conclusion consanguineous considerable correlation crime criminals Darwin decrease degenerate disease dysgenic effect elimination environment epilepsy epileptic especially Eugenics evidence evolution fact factors families fecundity feeble-minded fertility following table foreign born frequently Galton germ cells germ plasm greater hereditary heredity heterozygous higher human immigration inbreeding increase individuals infant mortality inferior influence insanity investigation Jour Kallikak family large number less London marriage rate married matings Mendelian Mendelian inheritance mental defect mothers mulattoes native natural selection negro neuropathic normal number of children occur offspring parents percentage persons physical population present probably problem produce proportion prostitutes Prussia race racial recessive relatively rural sexual selection social statistics stillbirths superior syphilis tend tendency tion traits transmission types urban various women
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Page 29 - There is no escape from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture when the differences of nurture do not exceed what is commonly to be found among persons of the same rank of society and in the same country.
Page 376 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 112 - VOM Vater hab ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Führen, Vom Mütterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabulieren. Urahnherr war der Schönsten hold, Das spukt so hin und wieder; Urahnfrau liebte Schmuck und Gold, Das zuckt wohl durch die Glieder. Sind nun die Elemente nicht Aus dem Komplex zu trennen, Was ist denn an dem ganzen Wicht Original zu nennen?
Page 35 - Indeed, in this family and its collateral branches, we find nothing but good representative citizenship. There are doctors, lawyers, judges, educators, traders, landholders, in short, respectable citizens, men and women prominent in every phase of social life.
Page 29 - In another pair of twins, one was born ruptured, and the other became so at six months old. Two twins at the age of twenty-three were attacked by toothache, and the same tooth had to be extracted in each case. There are curious and close correspondences mentioned in the falling off of the hair. Two cases are mentioned of death from the same disease ; one of which is very affecting. The outline of the story was that the twins were closely alike and singularly attached, and had identical tastes; they...
Page 309 - Elderton, EM, and Pearson, K., "A First Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring,
Page 386 - The cumulative evidence that improvements in diagnosis and changes in age composition explain away more than half and perhaps all of the apparent increase in cancer mortality rebuts the presumption raised by the figures and makes it probable, although far from certain, that cancer mortality is not increasing.
Page 28 - Among my thirty-five detailed cases of close similarity, there are no less than seven in which both twins suffered from some special ailment or had some exceptional peculiarity. One twin writes that she and her sister " have both the defect of not being able to come downstairs quickly, which, however, was not born with them, but came on at the age of twenty.
Page 226 - But what makes one tribe— one incipient tribe, one bit of a tribe— to differ from another is their relative faculty of coherence. The slightest symptom of legal development, the least indication of a military bond, is then enough to turn the scale. The compact tribes win, and the compact tribes are the tamest. Civilization begins, because the beginning of civilization is a military advantage.
Page 27 - They have had exactly the same nurture from their birth up to the present time; they are both perfectly healthy and strong, yet they are otherwise as dissimilar as two boys could be, physically, mentally, and in their emotional nature.