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THE publication of this competently written book which was prepared ostensibly for medical students is particularly opportune. In a straight forward and clear manner the author outlines the principles of particulate inheritance. The medical reader will be pleased to note that examples from man replace bottled Drosophila or wrinkled peas. After an adequate and clever account of Mendelism, which may surprise a pedantic geneticist, of linkage and the genetics of sex, there is a chapter on mutations and the nature of heredity. This chapter is a brilliant essay which will go far to counteract prevalent fallacies regarding the inheritance of environmentally influenced characters.
Genetics for Medical Students
By E. B. Ford. Pp. iv + 162. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1942.) 7s. 6d. net.
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SANSOME, F. Genetics for Medical Students. Nature 150, 222 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150222a0
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