Body-build and its inheritance
Body-Build and Its Inheritance, published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1923, is a statistical study by Charles B. Davenport of whether slenderness and stoutness run in families. Davenport, director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, had supervised the measurement of army recruits during the First World War and was struck by the diversity of human build. Here he proposes an index based on weight and height, traces its changes from childhood to old age, surveys differences by sex, race and region, relates build to disease and mate selection, and then analyzes hundreds of family pedigrees. The book is a primary document of the American eugenics movement; its tables and methods also belong to the early history of human genetics. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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What kind of book is Body-build and its inheritance?
Body-build and its inheritance by Charles Benedict Davenport is filed under "Science & Nature" in the Vinteuil library.
