Abstract
(1) IN his experience as a breeder and naturalist Mr. Bonhote has been confronted with the difficulties presented by many of the facts of inheritance. Mendel's law holds good in some cases, Gallon's law in others, but many facts seem unconformable, and a consideration of these has led him to a theory of “vigour.” By vigour he means “activity of nutrition and function” or “the rate of metabolism,” and his theory is that the “initial vigour” of an organism, which in part determines the expression of its inheritance, depends upon the vigour of the parents at the time of reproduction.
(1) Vigour and Heredity.
By J. L. Bonhote. Pp. xii + 263. (London: West, Newman and Co., 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
(2) Instinct and Intelligence.
By N. C. Macnamara. Pp. 216. (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 1915.) Price 6s. net.
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(1) Vigour and Heredity (2) Instinct and Intelligence . Nature 96, 561–562 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/096561a0
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