Hereditary descent : its laws and facts, illustrated and applied to the improvement of mankind ; with hints to woman ; including directions for forming matrimonial alliances so as to produce, in offspring, whatever physical, mental, or moral qualities may be desired ; together with preventives of hereditary tendencies

Hereditary descent : its laws and facts, illustrated and applied to the improvement of mankind ; with hints to woman ; including directions for forming matrimonial alliances so as to produce, in offspring, whatever physical, mental, or moral qualities may be desired ; together with preventives of hereditary tendencies / by O.S. Fowler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : O.S. & L.N. Fowler, 1843.
Subjects:
Heredity.
Phrenology.
Sociobiology.
Holy Cross Note:Gift of Prof. Robert S. Crowe, '31.
Table of Contents:
  • The subject-its importance
  • The characteristics of races, masses, and nations, in part hereditary
  • Physical qualities hereditary
  • Diseases hereditary
  • Mental diseases hereditary
  • Moral and intellectual qualities transmissible
  • The conditions of parents, while becoming parents.

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