Human pedigree studies

✍ Scribed by Opitz, John M.

• Book ID: 101212884
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 KB
• Volume: 92
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(20000605)92:4<298::aid-ajmg17>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

A review of the relationship between Galton and Darwinism in its search for a theory of biological inheritance during the second half of the 19th century; between Galton and the formation of human genetics; between Galton and his followers and the emerging Mendelism of the early 20th century; between Galton and eugenics in this century in England and elsewhere; and even that between the use of Galton's pedigree conventions and eugenic means would require a book larger than the one at hand. And in any event many of these ramifications of Galton's life and work have been discussed at length and in depth in such volumes as that by D.W. Forrest on Galton (