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On the phenomena of sex-differentiation

✍ Scribed by S. Watasé

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1892
Tongue
English
Weight
648 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
0362-2525

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✦ Synopsis

IN the fifty-seventh Exercitation of his work On Animal

Generation, 1 Harvey states that he has frequently wondered how it happens that the offspring, mixed as it is in so many particulars of its structure and constitution, and with the stamp of both parents so obviously upon it in many parts, should still escape all mixture in the matter of sex, and that it should uniformly prove either male or female.

A n obvious inference that suggests itself from this point of looking at the problem, as stated by Harvey, is that we may here be dealing with two questions which are independent of each other, viz. : (a) Thephenomena o f heredity, or the mixture of the parental' characteristics in the ofi-ppring; (b) The phnomena of sexual dz@v-entiation in the organism, in which the parental characters have already beeit mixed

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