Mendelian Inheritance and Eugenics

Abstract

IN the space of some 250 pages of well-produced matter, Prof. Gates has devoted himself to an examination of the known facts of human inheritance, with special reference to Mendelian inheritance. According to the preface, a compelling interest in eugenics and a conviction that statesmen and lawmakers alike have failed to realise how fully any intelligent attempt to improve the conditions and qualities of the human race must be founded on a knowledge of the manner in which qualities arise, are inherited, maintained or lost, have driven the author to glean from many sources. Thus he has been able to assemble in the present volume a crowded record of observations on the physical and mental characters oof man, the results of the blending of races, the problems of population, and other aspects of eugenics, the main practice of which appears to be the production in the human frame of ready remedies for the evils of our social systems.

Heredity and Eugenics.

By Prof. R. Ruggles Gates. Pp. xiii + 288. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 21s. net.