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THE first edition of Prof. Thomson's “Heredity,” which appeared in 1908, was reviewed at some length in NATURE (vol. Ixxviii., pp. 361–63). The book quickly became established as an introduction—at once trustworthy, impartial, and comprehensive—to the many problems that are presented to students of inheritance, and a second edition with some additions and revisions was published in 1912. The third edition is now before us, and the author has taken the opportunity of directing the reader's attention to some of the important advances that have been made by investigators during the last seven years. The size of the book has not been increased from the second edition, so that room for additions has been found by condensing the type-setting on certain pages; this involves a brevity of treatment disappointing to those who would have valued Prof. Thomson's judicious criticism of several recent theories. For example, the studies by T. H. Morgan and his fellow-workers on the inheritance of linked factors in the fruit-flies (Drosophila), and W. E. Castle's work on the relation between heredity and selection in hooded rats, are barely mentioned.
Heredity.
By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson. Third edition. (The Progressive Science Series.) Pp. xvi + 627. (London: John Murray, 1919.) Price 15s. net.
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C., G. Heredity . Nature 104, 92 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104092a0
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