CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES

ISBN: 9781397321640 Géneros: JKV Sinópsis: Excerpt from Consanguineous Marriages Their Effect Upon OffspringNow this statement is very explicit to the effect that be sides the ordinary laws of inheritance which may affect offspring for good or for bad there is in marriages of rela tions a specific degenerative influence due to the mere fact of nonrenewal of the blood If this be true it follows that the operation of this influence Will be equally potent and baneful when the persons united are healthy as when they are diseased And there should be discoverable among the offspring of such unions a conspicuous deterioration out of all proportion to those other hereditary influences whose potency is so well established Indeed it is difficult to see why if this supposition be true we should not find some evidence of degeneration present as the rule in all the per sons born from marriages of relations inasmuch as in all these cases by the hypothesis this specific cause of degenera tion is present Whether this is the fact has been made the subject of inquiry by many investigators but with results so utterly diverse as to leave the student more bewildered than ever and to suggest that in no field of investigation has the statistical method more pronounced limitations than in this In a paper like the present we can only allude in the brief est manner to some of the most important collection of cases illustrating the opposite views on this questionAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfection