Genetics and Eugenics: Fourth Edition

✍ Scribed by W. E. Castle

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1930
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 616
• Edition: 4th rev. ed. Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GENETICS
CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
CHAPTER II. CHROMATIN, THE DIRECTING AGENCY OF LIFE AND THE MATERIAL BASIS OF HEREDITY
CHAPTER III. REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL; PARTHENOGENESIS
CHAPTER IV. CHROMOSOME REDUCTION AND THE GENESIS OF GAMETES
CHAPTER V. HAPLOID, DIPLOID, TRIPLOID, AND TETRAPLOID ORGANISMS. CHROMOSOMES AND SEX. CHROMOSOMES IN RELATION TO PARTHENOGENESIS
CHAPTER VI. RELATION OF GENETICS TO THE EVOLUTION THEORY
PART II. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GENETICS
CHAPTER VII. DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND ITS EVIDENCES
CHAPTER VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAMARCK, WEISMANN, AND HERBERT SPENCER TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION; DARWIN’S THEORY OF PANGENESIS
CHAPTER IX. ARE ACQUIRED CHARACTERS INHERITED ?
CHAPTER X. WEISMANN’S THEORY OF HEREDITY
CHAPTER XI. ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY AND MEASURE VARIATION: BIOMETRY
CHAPTER XII. THE MUTATION THEORY OF DE VRIES AND THE MODERN MUTATION THEORY
CHAPTER XIII. THE PIONEER PLANT HYBRIDIZERS: THE DISCOVERY AND REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S LAW
PART III. THE ESSENTIAL FACTS OF GENETICS
CHAPTER XIV. MENDEL’S LAW OF HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED IN ANIMAL BREEDING
CHAPTER XV. SOME MENDELIAN TERMS AND THEIR USES
CHAPTER XVI. CALCULATING MENDELIAN EXPECTATIONS
CHAPTER XVII. MODIFIED MENDELIAN RATIOS; HETEROZYGOUS CHARACTERS; ATAVISM OR REVERSION
CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNIT-CHARACTERS OF RODENTS
CHAPTER XIX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN CATTLE AND HORSES
CHAPTER XX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN SWINE, SHEEP, DOGS, AND CATS
CHAPTER XXI. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN POULTRY AND IN PLANTS
CHAPTER XXII. UNIT-CHARACTERS OF INSECTS
CHAPTER XXIII. SEX-LINKED AND OTHER KINDS OF LINKED INHERITANCE IN DROSOPHILA
CHAPTER XXIV. DROSOPHILA TYPE AND POULTRY TYPE OF SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE
CHAPTER XXV. LINKAGE
CHAPTER XXVI. UNIT-CHARACTERS AND SELECTION; MODIFYING FACTORS AND MULTIPLE ALLELOMORPHS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF MUTATIONS; THE PURE LINE PRINCIPLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. INHERITANCE OF SIZE AND OTHER QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS. THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTIPLE FACTORS
CHAPTER XXIX. GENETIC CHANGES AND THE CHROMOSOMES
CHAPTER XXX. GENETIC CHANGES IN ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN PARTHENOGENESIS, AND IN SELF-FERTILIZATION
CHAPTER XXXI. GENETIC CHANGES IN BISEXUAL REPRODUCTION
CHAPTER XXXII. INBREEDING AND CROSSBREEDING
CHAPTER XXXIII. HYBRID VIGOR OR HETEROSIS
CHAPTER XXXIV. GALTON’S LAW OF ANCESTRAL HEREDITY AND HIS PRINCIPLE OF REGRESSION
CHAPTER XXXV. SEX DETERMINATION, SEX MOSAICS AND SEX HORMONES
CHAPTER XXXVI. PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING
CHAPTER XXXVII. PRINCIPLES OF LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RELATION OF MENDELISM TO MUTATION AND EVOLUTION
PART IV. EUGENICS
CHAPTER XXXIX. HUMAN CROSSES
CHAPTER XL. HUMAN HEREDITY IN GENERAL
CHAPTER XLI. PHYSICAL INHERITANCE
CHAPTER XLII. HEREDITY OF GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY, INSANITY, EPILEPSY, AND FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS
CHAPTER XLIII. THE POSSIBILITY AND PROSPECTS OF BREEDING A BETTER HUMAN RACE
BIBLIOGRAPHY I. (1920)
BIBLIOGRAPHY II. (1920–1924)
BIBLIOGRAPHY III.
INDEX