# Some possible bearings of genetics on pathology

Author: Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71234

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## Summary

It has been pointed out in derision that modern genetics deals, for the most part, with the inheritance of abnormalities and disorders of various kinds—albinos, brachydactyls, cretins, dwarfs, freaks, giants, hermaphrodites, imbeciles, Jukes, Kallikaks, lunatics, morons, polydactyls, runts, simpletons, twins, and Zeros: in a word, with pathological phenomena in a very broad sense. This statement, intended as a reflection on genetics, carries with it an implication that a study dealing with such material cannot be of first rate importance. Such condemnation will probably be received by pathologists with the kind of smile it deserves, and I feel that I am not likely to be called upon here t...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/some-possible-bearings-of-genetics-on-pathology-71234/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/some-possible-bearings-of-genetics-on-pathology-71234/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/some-possible-bearings-of-genetics-on-pathology-71234/chapters/3/index.md)