The Social Direction Of Evolution An Outline Of The Science Of

This small volume is based upon three lectures on Eugenics delivered at Oberlin College in April, 1910. In preparing them for publication many extensions and a few additions hav...

Madison Bentley has recently put it nicely in this way. Does talent grow with knowledge? "May we not suppose that the men and women of some distant glacial age, who dwelt upon t...

The coming together of biology and sociology, and their common search for guiding principles in their common endeavor is likely to have results of several kinds. It is likely to...

For example, the curve shown in Fig. 6, A, which is approximately that of a normal distribution, in some cases might be shown by experimentation to consist in reality of several...

It does not come within our province to attempt an explanation of this formula of heredity by describing some of the more fundamental conditions upon which it depends. In fact,...

Now, whatever the actual extent of this regression is in a group we need to know how uniformly it occurs for all the classes of different deviations from the general average, th...

The subject before us illustrates the direct bearing of science upon moral conduct and upon statecraft. The scientific study of man is not merely a passive intellectual viewing...

Fig. 14 gives a brief pedigree of a family in which polydactylism occurs. This is a condition in which one or more additional or supernumerary fingers or toes are present in the...

At the risk of easing the conscience, let us finally return to the other side of society and look at a summarized statement of the Edwards Family given by Boies and drawn from W...

Research in another direction is greatly needed. We should examine and reëxamine current as well as proposed social practices and reforms from the racial point of view. We shoul...

It is also a part of eugenic practice to oppose vigorously and unmistakably any social practice leading to the reduction in the reproductivity of the desirable and valuable elem...

6. The following misprints have been corrected: "stattistical" corrected to "statistical" (page 81) Removed stray bracket in "second parent)" (page 93) Added period at end of ab...