Word: sheinfeld
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Deriding the claims of old-fashioned sociologists and asking "What's wrong with this picture?" (see cut), Mr. Sheinfeld points out that the differences between the "worthy Quakeress and the feeble-minded slattern" cannot account for the differences between the two Kallikak clans. For Old Horror, who was presumably feebleminded, could not, by the law of genetics, have inherited his feeble mind from one parent alone. Only "recessive" genes are involved in feeblemindedness, "which means that such genes must come from both parents for the effect to assert itself." Hence "the worthy Martin Kallikak Sr., himself...