The Principles of Heredity: With Some Applications (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

G. Archdall Reid

9780365411604: The Principles of Heredity: With Some Applications (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365411604 ISBN 13: 9780365411604

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Explore how heredity shapes health, disease, and evolution.

A rigorous, evidence-driven examination of how traits pass from parents, how variation arises, and what biology means for medicine and society. This edition analyzes disease, reproduction, and the mind to illuminate heredity’s role in our past and future.

The book surveys the interplay between heredity and health, showing how parental traits influence offspring and how environmental factors interact with germ cells. It connects ideas about evolution, disease, and human progress to explain why certain characteristics persist or change across generations. It also treats narcotics and addiction as part of the broader story of natural selection and human variation, comparing these factors to other selective pressures in society.

Learn how heredity is studied through disease, reproduction, and the development of the individual.
See how ideas about evolution and selection shaped scientific thinking in the early 20th century.
Understand why some theories about inheritance competed with, and were refined by, new evidence.
Discover the book’s view of medicine, biology, and their shared history in shaping human health.

Ideal for readers of biology, medical history, and the science of evolution who want a clear, age-appropriate introduction to how heredity connects to disease, environment, and human change.

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