Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics

Most of us have heard in one form or another the fairy story of the youth on adventure bent, who was captured by the giant and under dire penalty in case of failure was set the...

=Which New Characters Are Inherited?--=Any new feature which appears in a given organism may have had its origin in some change which has come about in the germ from which it sp...

Before we can make any detailed analysis of the inheritance of characters we should have some general idea of the physical structure of animals and particularly some familiarity...

=All That a Child Possesses at Birth Not Necessarily Hereditary.--=We come now to the more specific discussion of what may happen to offspring of mammals, and particularly man,...

Since both physical and mental attributes are unquestionably inherited, it becomes a matter of importance to inquire into the nature of the entity we call personality. To what e...

Some of the most important and serious problems which confront humanity to-day lie in the realm of mental and neural maladjustments. For human progress and social welfare are in...

=New Discoveries in the Field of Heredity.--=Writing in 1899, one of America's well-known zoologists asserts that, "It is easier to weigh an invisible planet than to measure the...

=The Relative Importance of Heredity and Environment in This Field Uncertain.--=The whole question of crime and delinquency is a highly complex one. Here, perhaps, more than in...

It is a commonplace fact that offspring tend to resemble their parents. So commonplace, indeed, that few stop to wonder at it. No one misunderstands us when we say that such and...

=The Mendelian Principles Probably Applicable to Many Characters of Man.--=We are really just beginning to make the proper observations and collect the necessary data with refer...

Doctor J. S. Evans for reading Chapter VI and part of V; to Doctor W. F. Lorenz, of the Mendota Hospital, for reading Chapter VIII; to Judge E. Ray Stevens for reading Chapter I...