Genetics and Man

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Macmillan, 1964 - Genetics - 382 pages

Contents

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20
Preface
20
The New World of the Microscope
33
Evolution Takes Charge
47
Lamarcks Giraffe
54
Spencer and Pangenesis
57
Particles or Essences?
64
The First Chromosomes
68
Effect of Selection on a Continuously Varying Character
182
The Exploitation of Uncertainty
185
INTERLUDE
201
MAN AND WOMAN
217
Man the Individual
224
Cleavage of an Egg 194
230
Twin Monsters and Triplets from Single Eggs
231
Man in Society
245

The Beginning of an Individual
71
Weismanns Theory of the Life Cycle
73
Weismanns Idea of Recombination
74
Two Theories of Heredity
81
I
87
II
105
First Illustration of Crossingover
107
Effects of Crossingover at Meiosis
109
the Fly III
111
the Chromosomes
112
The Origin and Breakdown of Life
128
Three stages in the Theory of Disease
141
The Genetic Underworld
143
What causes Lung Cancer
155
Origin of Viruses
160
The Sources of Uncertainty
167
Colonization of the World by Man
261
Malaria Map
263
Sex and Temperament
273
Pairing of the Sex Chromosomes in Man
274
Sex Determination in Man by Two Kinds of Sperm
275
Monthly Sexual Cycle in Woman
284
Survival of Mental Defectives
292
Determination of Sex Development of Sex How
293
The Diagram of Love
295
Performances of Bulls
308
The Irrational Element
327
Matter Life and Science
349
Names and Dates
360
Chapter 15
367
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