Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population
Chapter 4
CONSANGUINITY AND REPRODUCTION
Theories of the Effect of Consanguinity upon Offspring--Comparative Fertility--Statistics from Darwin and Bemiss--Genealogical Statistics--Youthful Death-rate--Degeneracy--Fallacies in the Work of Bemiss--Isolated Communities--_The Jukes_--Other Degenerate Families--Scrofula