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A GOOD deal of water has flowed under the bridges since the first appearance of this work by Morgan and his three best-known pupils, and we think that the second edition will be generally welcomed. Morgan's “Physical Basis of Heredity,” published in 1919, was of more restricted scope, dealing chiefly with the chromosomes as such, whereas the present volume is concerned primarily with genetical problems. It is not necessary to detail the scope and standard of the book, since these are already well known. Suffice it to say that it has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date, and that two new chapters, on inheritance in unicellular organisms and on the (Enothera problem, have also been added.
The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity.
By Prof. T. H. Morgan A. H. Sturtevant Prof. H. J. Muller C. B. Bridges. Revised edition. Pp. xiv + 357. (New York: Henry Holt and Co.; London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 25s.
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HUXLEY, J. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity. Nature 113, 518–520 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113518a0
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