Mendelian heredity in man / by C.C. Hurst.

  • Hurst, C. C. (Charles Chamberlain), 1870-1947.
Date:
[1912]
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    MENDELIAN HEREDITY IN MAN By Major C. C. Hurst, F.L.S. Director of the Burbage Experiment Station During the last ten years the Mendelian principles of heredity have been applied with remarkable success to various characters in many kinds of plants and animals. These Mendelian experi¬ ments have given rise to the new science of Genetics. In the absence of controlled matings, the analytical methods of Genetics are obviously difficult to apply to Man, and for his analyses, the student has to rely on observations of the results of random matings. In spite of this heavy handicap, and notwith¬ standing the almost equally serious drawback of having to deal with small families, considerable progress has been made, and there is no doubt that at the present time we have sufficient positive evidence to demonstrate the working of Mendelian heredity in Man, and to encourage students to pursue their investigations over a wider field. A large amount of work has been done recently in the way of collecting pedigrees from different sources, illustrating the inheritance of various characters in Man, and in certain cases where the pedigrees have been critically analysed in the light of the Mendelian principles, some valuable results have been obtained. The results obtained by Farabee (io), Nettleship (21), Davenport (3-7), Gossage (12),