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...Biometrist Bernstein does not believe that baldness or gout have a direct effect on the sex of children. Her theory is that the sex ratio is tied up with the parents' hormone balance: she regards baldness as a sign that the father's male hormones are especially dominant, while gout suggests a shortage of male hormones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boys, Girls & Hormones | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...wife's brother's daughter, wife's sister's daughter. If the report is accepted, the Church of England will once more be in line with civil law. The commission still urged "grave biological and some other objections to marriage between first cousins." quoted famed Biometrist J. B. S. Haldane, who testified that if first-cousin marriages were prohibited, England would have fewer mental defectives, deaf-mutes, still-born children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kindred and Affinity | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...Reed, Johns Hopkins University biometrist, presented charts showing that "When there are 200,000,000 people in the U. S., some will go hungry unless tropic soils are exploited or artificial foods contrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Williamstown- Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

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