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OUR knowledge of heredity has long since passed the stage when it could be summed up in a few simple aphorisms such as “like begets like.” During the past thirty years especially, many diverse lines of approach have been explored; biometry has attempted the measurement of likeness, cytology and experimental embryology have unveiled some of the mysteries of begetting, and Mendelian research has given one answer to the question why like sometimes begets unlike. To sketch an intelligible outline of the results obtained in these varied fields and to present them in ordered and logical sequence is no light undertaking; to compress it within the space of 250 pages might well seem impossible. Prof. MacBride, however, is an experienced teacher, with a gift for lucid and forcible exposition, and this little book is well fitted to arouse interest and to stimulate the reader to further study.
An Introduction to the Study of Heredity.
By Prof. E. W. MacBride. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.) Pp. 256. (London: Williams and Norgate; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1924.) 2s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to the Study of Heredity. Nature 114, 570 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114570a0
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