Passing of traits to offspring from its parents or ancestor

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Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

Natural inheritance / by Francis Galton.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.

Über das Gedächtniss als eine allgemeine Function der organisirten Materie : Vortrag gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am XXX. Mai MDCCCLXX / von Ewald Hering.

Human heredity in the twentieth century / edited by Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille, Edmund Ramsden.

Heredity / by J.A.S. Watson.

Animal genetics : an introduction to the science of animal breeding / [F.A.E. Crew].

Bioethics in historical perspective / Sarah Ferber.

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Heredity

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Über das Gedächtniss als eine allgemeine Function der organisirten Materie : Vortrag gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am XXX. Mai MDCCCLXX / von Ewald Hering.

Human heredity in the twentieth century / edited by Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille, Edmund Ramsden.

Heredity / by J.A.S. Watson.

Animal genetics : an introduction to the science of animal breeding / [F.A.E. Crew].

Bioethics in historical perspective / Sarah Ferber.

Heredity

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Über das Gedächtniss als eine allgemeine Function der organisirten Materie : Vortrag gehalten in der feierlichen Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am XXX. Mai MDCCCLXX / von Ewald Hering.

Human heredity in the twentieth century / edited by Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille, Edmund Ramsden.

Heredity / by J.A.S. Watson.

Animal genetics : an introduction to the science of animal breeding / [F.A.E. Crew].

Bioethics in historical perspective / Sarah Ferber.

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