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THESE two competently designed books illustrate, in their different ways, the wide field covered by genetics. They will go far to counteract the erroneous impression now prevalent that genetics is primarily composed of cytological and mathematical complexities. The books obviously reflect the fact that they are written by well-known practising geneticists.
(1) The Study of Heredity
By E. B. Ford. (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) Pp. 256. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1938.) 2s. 6d. net.
(2) The Measurement of Linkage in Heredity
By Dr. K. Mather. (Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects.) Pp. ix + 132. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 4s. 6d. net.
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SANSOME, F. (1) The Study of Heredity (2) The Measurement of Linkage in Heredity. Nature 142, 415 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142415a0
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