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WHEN the history of genetics comes to be written, the beginnings of human genetics will not form its most creditable chapter. Theory outran practice in its development. The bio-metricians used the coefficient of correlation as a universal tool; the Mendelians attempted to force the data into the even more Procrustean frame of 1:1 and 3:1 ratios; the eugenists pro-posed the solution of very complex social problems on the basis of quite inadequate data. Meanwhile, opponents of the genetical point of view asserted that innate factors are of no serious importance in determining human conduct. Human genetics to-day are still in this highly uncritical stage of development, but Prof. Hogben's book is at least the herald of a more scientific epoch.
Genetic Principles in Medicine and Social Science.
By Prof. Lancelot Hogben. Pp. 230. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1931.) 15s. net.
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HALDANE, J. A Programme for Human Genetics. Nature 129, 345–346 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129345a0
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