Word: scheinfeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeblemindedness, "which means that such genes must come from both parents for the effect to assert itself." Hence "the worthy Martin Kallikak Sr., himself had to be carrying such genes of feeblemindedness . . . and the 'good' Kallikaks also received some of those genes." Most probably, concludes Mr. Scheinfeld, bad environment was a major factor in producing bad Kallikaks...
Genius and Kallikaks. Whether children inherit temperament, intelligence, musical talent or various diseases is a genetic question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...