Genetics and Eugenics : : Fourth Edition /

Genetics and Eugenics : : Fourth Edition / / W. E. Castle.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Castle, W. E.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1930
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:4th rev. ed. Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in Genetics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (474 p.) :; 170 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF GENETICS
  • CHAPTER I. THE PLACE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
  • CHAPTER II. CHROMATIN, THE DIRECTING AGENCY OF LIFE AND THE MATERIAL BASIS OF HEREDITY
  • CHAPTER III. REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL; PARTHENOGENESIS
  • CHAPTER IV. CHROMOSOME REDUCTION AND THE GENESIS OF GAMETES
  • CHAPTER V. HAPLOID, DIPLOID, TRIPLOID, AND TETRAPLOID ORGANISMS. CHROMOSOMES AND SEX. CHROMOSOMES IN RELATION TO PARTHENOGENESIS
  • CHAPTER VI. RELATION OF GENETICS TO THE EVOLUTION THEORY
  • PART II. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GENETICS
  • CHAPTER VII. DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND ITS EVIDENCES
  • CHAPTER VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS OF LAMARCK, WEISMANN, AND HERBERT SPENCER TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION; DARWIN’S THEORY OF PANGENESIS
  • CHAPTER IX. ARE ACQUIRED CHARACTERS INHERITED ?
  • CHAPTER X. WEISMANN’S THEORY OF HEREDITY
  • CHAPTER XI. ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY AND MEASURE VARIATION: BIOMETRY
  • CHAPTER XII. THE MUTATION THEORY OF DE VRIES AND THE MODERN MUTATION THEORY
  • CHAPTER XIII. THE PIONEER PLANT HYBRIDIZERS: THE DISCOVERY AND REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S LAW
  • PART III. THE ESSENTIAL FACTS OF GENETICS
  • CHAPTER XIV. MENDEL’S LAW OF HEREDITY ILLUSTRATED IN ANIMAL BREEDING
  • CHAPTER XV. SOME MENDELIAN TERMS AND THEIR USES
  • CHAPTER XVI. CALCULATING MENDELIAN EXPECTATIONS
  • CHAPTER XVII. MODIFIED MENDELIAN RATIOS; HETEROZYGOUS CHARACTERS; ATAVISM OR REVERSION
  • CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNIT-CHARACTERS OF RODENTS
  • CHAPTER XIX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN CATTLE AND HORSES
  • CHAPTER XX. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN SWINE, SHEEP, DOGS, AND CATS
  • CHAPTER XXI. UNIT-CHARACTERS IN POULTRY AND IN PLANTS
  • CHAPTER XXII. UNIT-CHARACTERS OF INSECTS
  • CHAPTER XXIII. SEX-LINKED AND OTHER KINDS OF LINKED INHERITANCE IN DROSOPHILA
  • CHAPTER XXIV. DROSOPHILA TYPE AND POULTRY TYPE OF SEX-LINKED INHERITANCE
  • CHAPTER XXV. LINKAGE
  • CHAPTER XXVI. UNIT-CHARACTERS AND SELECTION; MODIFYING FACTORS AND MULTIPLE ALLELOMORPHS
  • CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF MUTATIONS; THE PURE LINE PRINCIPLE
  • CHAPTER XXVIII. INHERITANCE OF SIZE AND OTHER QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS. THE HYPOTHESIS OF MULTIPLE FACTORS
  • CHAPTER XXIX. GENETIC CHANGES AND THE CHROMOSOMES
  • CHAPTER XXX. GENETIC CHANGES IN ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN PARTHENOGENESIS, AND IN SELF-FERTILIZATION
  • CHAPTER XXXI. GENETIC CHANGES IN BISEXUAL REPRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER XXXII. INBREEDING AND CROSSBREEDING
  • CHAPTER XXXIII. HYBRID VIGOR OR HETEROSIS
  • CHAPTER XXXIV. GALTON’S LAW OF ANCESTRAL HEREDITY AND HIS PRINCIPLE OF REGRESSION
  • CHAPTER XXXV. SEX DETERMINATION, SEX MOSAICS AND SEX HORMONES
  • CHAPTER XXXVI. PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING
  • CHAPTER XXXVII. PRINCIPLES OF LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT
  • CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RELATION OF MENDELISM TO MUTATION AND EVOLUTION
  • PART IV. EUGENICS
  • CHAPTER XXXIX. HUMAN CROSSES
  • CHAPTER XL. HUMAN HEREDITY IN GENERAL
  • CHAPTER XLI. PHYSICAL INHERITANCE
  • CHAPTER XLII. HEREDITY OF GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY, INSANITY, EPILEPSY, AND FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS
  • CHAPTER XLIII. THE POSSIBILITY AND PROSPECTS OF BREEDING A BETTER HUMAN RACE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY I. (1920)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY II. (1920–1924)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY III.
  • INDEX

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