Heredity / by J. Arthur Thomson.

  • Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933.
Date:
1908
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    PACB jor the Transmissibilify of Modifications. § 9- Particular Evi- dence in support of the Affirmative Answer. § lO. As regards Mutilations and the Like. § ii. Brown-Sequard's Experiments on Guinea-pigs. § 12. Negative Evidence in favour of the Affirma- tive Answer. § 13. The Logical Position of the Argument. § 14. Indirect Importance of Modifications. § 15. Practical Con- siderations. CHAPTER VIII HEREDITY AND DISEASE 25O § I. Health and Disease. § 2. Misunderstandings in regard to the Inheritance of Disease. § 3. Are Acquired Diseases transmissible? § 4. Can a Disease be transmitted? § 5. Pre- dispositions to Disease. § 6. Particular Cases. § 7. Defects, Multiplicities, Malformations, and other Abnormalities. § 8. Some Provisional Propositions. § 9. Immunity. § 10. Note on Chromosomes in Man. § 11. Practical Considerations. CHAPTER IX STATISTICAL STUDY OF INHERITANCE .... 309 § I. Statistical and Physiological Inquiries. § 2. Historical Note. § 3. ^ Hint of the Statistical Mode of Procedure. § 4. Filial Regression. § 5. Law of Ancestral Inheritance. § 6. Illustration of Results reached by Statistical Study. § 7. Applica- tion to Individual Cases. § 8. Statistical and Physiological Laws. CHAPTER X EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF INHERITANCE .... 336 § I. Mendel's Discoveries. § 2. Theoretical Interpretations. § 3. Elaborations. § 4. Illustrations of Mendelian Inheritance. § 5. Mendel's Discovery in Relation to Other Conclusions. § 6. Practical Importance of Mendel's Discovery. § 7. Oi/icr Experi- ments on Heredity. § 8. Consanguinity. CHAPTER XI HISTORY OF THEORIES OF HEREDITY AND INHERITANCE . 395 § I. What is required of Theories of Heredity and Inheritance. § 2. The Old Theories of Heredity. § 3. Theories of Pangenesis. § 4. Theory of Genetic or Germinal Continuity.