Genetics : An introduction to the study of heredity / Herbert Eugene Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, Herbert Eugene, 1867- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics.

Heredity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages, plates) : illustrations

Other Title:

Genetics

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Co, 1919.

Summary:

"The following pages had their origin in a course of lectures upon Heredity, given at Brown University during the winter of 1911-1912, which were amplified and repeated in part the following summer at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, before the biological summer school of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. An attempt has been made to summarize for the intelligent, but uninitiated, reader some of the more recent phases of the questions of heredity which are at present agitating the biological world. It is hoped that this summary will not only be of interest to the general reader, but that it will also be of service in college courses dealing with evolution and heredity. The subject of heredity concerns every one, but many of those who wish to become better informed regarding it are either too busily engaged or lack the opportunity to study the matter out for themselves. The recent literature in this field is already very large, with every indication that much more is about to follow, which is a further discouragement to nontechnical readers"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

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