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5 unusual facts about heredity


Gordon Music Learning Theory

At the present, there is no evidence that suggests that musical intelligence is hereditary.

Labiaplasty

In the course of treating identical twin sisters, S.P. Davison et al reported that the labia were the same size in each woman, which indicated genetic determination.

Natchez people

Related to this is the idea that the Honored category was not a social class but rather an honorific title given to commoner men and was not hereditary.

Progressive disease

Nerves: Essential tremor is a slowly progressive neurological disorder which is usually genetically passed down.

Reciprocal determinism

Behavioral genetics is a relatively new field of study attempting to make sense of both genetic and environmental contributions to individual variations in human behavior.


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Adoption detective

The biological science of genetics, which began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-nineteenth century, seeks to understand the process of inheritance and the physical basis for heredity in our DNA.

Andrea Prader

Females are not affected by the condition, however due to linkage of heredity with the X chromosome, they are thought to be genetic carriers.

Eugenics Record Office

The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century.

Evolution in Mendelian Populations

Studiers of evolution such as Lamarck and those who postulated the inheritance of acquired characteristics (e.g. Theodor Eimer and Edward Drinker Cope) were concerned with heredity and sought a link between one generation to the next.

Franz Josef Kallmann

He developed the use of twin studies in the assessment of the relative roles of heredity and the environment in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease.

Genetic

Genetics, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms

Halfdan Bryn

Norway's leading academic contemporaries on issues of genetics and heredity such as Kristinne Bonnevie, Otto Lous Mohr Kristian & Alette Schreiner belonged to his academic circle.

Homo Sapiens 1900

The Institute's chairman, Eugen Fischer, says its task is to 'investigate the connection between heredity, environment and crossbreeding, and to promote social measures which benefit racially sound individuals'.

Zoology

Evolutionary biology: Development of both animals and plants is considered in the articles on evolution, population genetics, heredity, variation, Mendelism, reproduction.


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