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DR. JANKOWSKY here enters upon an investigation of no little general interest, as well as of importance in the present standing of racial studies and the question of human inheritance. His central problem is that of resemblances in appearance, both as between members of a family and as between individuals who are not known to be personally related. He also brings into consideration the biological character and significance of such phenomena of resemblance. He discusses successively the concepts of blood relationship, resemblance factors, individual heredity and pseudo-resemblances. Further, he examines and sets out the methods of investigation applicable to the investigation of the specific problem. One of the most important aspects of the question, on which his views will be found of no little interest to the ethnologist and the student of human heredity, is that of the degree to which significance is to be attached to resemblances without personal relationship in the light of the theory of chance and with special reference to the conditions of descent within a given population.
Die Blutsverwandschaft im Volk und in der Familie:
ein Beitrag zur menschlichen Lebenskunde (Anthropologie). Von Dr. Walther Jankowsky. Pp. viii + 166 + 12 plates. (Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Erwin Nägele) G.m.b.H., 1934.) 6 gold marks.
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Die Blutsverwandschaft im Volk und in der Familie. Nature 136, 739 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136739b0
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