Modes of research in genetics / by Raymond Pearl.

  • Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Modes of research in genetics / by Raymond Pearl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE This book has been prepared in the hope that it may meet, in some small degree, what seems to be a rather definite need in biological literature. During the past fifteen years there has been a great movement of biological research towards the prob¬ lems of organic evolution, and particularly towards that phase of those problems which constitutes the subject currently known as genetics. Ex¬ perimental breeding has become the order of the day, not alone in the laboratories of zoology and botany, but in the agricultural experiment stations and colleges everywhere. Research in a new field means the application of new methods. Nowhere has this been more true than in genetics. For a critical handling of many genetic problems, a thorough grounding in chem¬ istry, physics, and mathematics as well as biology is really a necessity. In particular the widespread use of the biometrie technique in biology and agriculture demands a clear understanding of cer¬ tain fundamental mathematical principles. Un¬ fortunately such a clear grasp of underlying principles is too often plainly lacking in the bio-