The Kallikak family : a study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry Herbert Goddard.

  • Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
Date:
1912
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Credit: The Kallikak family : a study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry Herbert Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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