Abstract
THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it increases daily through the research activities of universities, experiment stations and other institutions, and it is becoming exceedingly important now to disseminate this knowledge in order to make further progress possible. Genetics is taught in the universities of the United States as an important subject in biology, and in Great Britain, where the teaching of biology is still backward, genetics has been given the place of a Cinderella. A few years age it was perhaps sufficient to acquaint the student only with Mendelian ratios; nowadays, however, the rapid advancement of genetical discoveries makes it necessary to study in greater detail the intricate mechanism by which characters are transmitted.
An Introduction to Genetics
By Prof. A. H. Sturtevant Prof. G. W. Beadle. Pp. 391. (Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd., 1939.) 14s. net.
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KOLLER, P. An Introduction to Genetics. Nature 144, 1067–1068 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441067a0
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