Body-build and its inheritance
by Charles Benedict Davenport
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About this eBook
- Author
- Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944
- Original Publication
- Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1923.
- Credits
- Brian Wilson, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Human anatomy
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 78107
- Release Date
- March 4, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS. — BODY-BUILD AND ITS INHERITANCE
- 4.PART I. BUILD, ITS DEFINITION AND ITS ONTOGENY. — A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. — Types of Variation in Build. — The Measurement of Build. — Sexual Differences in Build. — Racial Differences in Build. — Geographical Differences in Build.
- 5.B. THE ONTOGENY OF BUILD. — Materials and Methods. — The Ontogenetic Curve of Build. — Later Ontogenetic Changes in Individual Build. — Relation of Juvenile to Adult Build.
- 6.PART II. MASS STUDIES IN HEREDITY OF ADULT BUILD. — METHODS AND MATERIALS. — THE ADULT INDEX OF BUILD. — CLASSIFICATION OF BUILD. — SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIATIONS IN BUILD. — DISEASES IN RELATION TO BUILD. — MASS STUDY OF VARIATION AND HEREDITY IN BUILD. — REGRESSION OF PROGENY TOWARD MEDIOCRITY. — HYPOTHESIS. — MATE SELECTION IN BUILD. — THE BASAL TABLES.
- 7.PART III. FAMILY STUDIES IN HEREDITY OF BUILD. — A. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM.
- 8.B. DISCUSSION OF SPECIAL MATINGS. — Class I. Both Parents Slender. — Summary of S × S Matings. — Class II. Both Parents Fleshy. — Summary. — Class III. Mating of Slender with Fleshy Stock—The F₁ Generation. — Summary. — Class IV. Mating of Probably Heterozygous Parents (the F₂ Generation). — Summary and Discussion. — Class V. The “Back-Cross.” — Summary and Discussion.
- 9.C. GENERAL DISCUSSION. — Heredity and Environment in Build. — Endocrine Glands as Links between Chromosomes and Somatic Qualities. — Evidence of Segregation in the Heredity of Build. — On the Number of Factors Involved in Fleshy Build.
- 10.D. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS.
- 11.APPENDIX. — ABBREVIATIONS.
- 12.LITERATURE CITED.
- 13.Untitled
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