Heredity in the light of recent research / by L. Doncaster.

  • Doncaster, L. (Leonard), 1877-1920.
Date:
1912
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    CHAP. duction of Colour.—Colour in Animals; some colours ‘ epistatic ’ over others.—Flower-colours; Reversion on crossing.—The nature of albinism.—More complex cases of interrelation; Stocks, Primulas . . . 71 VII. Some Disputed Questions. Mendelian segregation.— Inheritance of acquired characters.—Indirect and ex- perimental evidence. — Telegouy. — Maternal Impres- sion 85 VIII. Heredity in Man. Physical and Mental Characters.— Diseases.—Mendelian Characters; Eye-colour, Brachy- dactyly, abnormalities of the Eye. —Non-Mendelian characters; Skin and Hair-colour. — Importance of Heredity in relation to Sociology . . . 101 IX. Heredity and Sex. Secondary sexual characters.— Dominance altered by Sex.—Sex-limited iulieritauce; theCurrant Moth, Fowls, the Drosophila.—Sex-limited affections in Man; Colour-blindness, Night-blindness and Haemophilia.—Sex inherited as a Mendelian character.— Sexual Dimorphism 119 Appendix I. Historical Summary of Theories of Heredity. Lamarck.—Darwin and the Theory of Pangenesis.— Weismann’s Theory of Germ-Plasm . . .135 Appendix II. The Material Basis of Inheritance. The Nucleus and Chromosomes as possible ‘bearers’ of Heredity. Behaviour of Chromosomes in Germ-cell formation 145 Liter.\turb List 151 Glossary 155 Index 159