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Body-build and its inheritance

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Body-build and its inheritance

Charles Benedict Davenport

309 pages~6 hr 9 min read46 chapters$4.99
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How much of a person's physical build is inherited? Charles Davenport measures the question across a 1920s dataset: how build is defined, how it varies between individuals, and how a body changes as it grows. A period study in early human biometrics and heredity. A window onto how scientists of the era tried to quantify the human frame.

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46 chapters

  1. 1BODY-BUILD AND ITS INHERITANCE
  2. 2PART I. BUILD, ITS DEFINITION AND ITS ONTOGENY.
  3. 3A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
  4. 4Types of Variation in Build.
  5. 5The Measurement of Build.
  6. 6Sexual Differences in Build.
  7. 7Racial Differences in Build.
  8. 8Geographical Differences in Build.
  9. 9B. THE ONTOGENY OF BUILD.
  10. 10Materials and Methods.
  11. 11The Ontogenetic Curve of Build.
  12. 12Later Ontogenetic Changes in Individual Build.
  13. 13Relation of Juvenile to Adult Build.
  14. 14PART II. MASS STUDIES IN HEREDITY OF ADULT BUILD.
  15. 15METHODS AND MATERIALS.
  16. 16THE ADULT INDEX OF BUILD.
  17. 17CLASSIFICATION OF BUILD.
  18. 18SIGNIFICANCE OF VARIATIONS IN BUILD.

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