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THIS book gives a fairly adequate account of the physical basis of heredity and of the more conventional aspects of genetics. The general treatment is on the whole satisfactory, but scarcely original. TJnfortunately, many of the more important modern advances are omitted. There is no discussion of auto-or allo-polyploidy, of the evolution of dominance, or of the gene-complex. The physiology of sex-determination, and the whole subject of genetic physiology, is also omitted. The treatment of cell-division is entirely out of date: no attempt is made to modify the older views of it in accord with the work of BSlaf, Darlington and the modern school of cytologists. On the other hand, Stern's cytological proof of genetic crossing-over is explained in a helpful manner.
Les conceptions modernes de l'hérédité
Par Prof. Maurice Caullery. (Bibliothéque de Philosophie scientifique.) Pp. 312. (Paris: Ernest FlaMammarion, 1935.) 15 francs.
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F., E. [Short Notices]. Nature 138, 633 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138633a0
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