Human Heredity (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Redfield, Casper Lavater

 
9781440037894: Human Heredity (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Discover how effort, environment, and inheritance shape strength, health, and society.

This book presents a clear, fact-based look at how powers—physical, mental, and resistant traits—are built through training, lived experience, and heredity, not by simple luck or quick fixes. It helps readers understand why generations of people and animals show change through ongoing practice and adaptation. This edition lays out practical ideas about how exercise, discipline, and life choices influence abilities over time. It contrasts common myths with observations about how powers develop and persist, and it explains how civilization has progressed by delaying certain patterns of reproduction and increasing the work people must do before starting a family. The discussion stays focused on real-world effects, from athletic training to disease resistance, without overpromising outcomes.

  • How repeated effort strengthens abilities and endurance in individuals and communities
  • Why social practices and customs can impact the course of civilization
  • Ways inheritance and environment interact across generations to shape health and power
  • Examples of how resistance to disease can be built through practice and adaptation
Ideal for readers curious about the links between training, heredity, and social change, and for those seeking a practical view of human development.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The things set forth in this little book are matters of fact, and not a philosophy or a set of opinions. If some person does not agree, his proper procedure is to find contrary facts to offset those here presented. As there is an ample supply of records, there is no excuse for applying denunciation instead of getting the facts. For example, my tables show that the children bom to fathers less than thirty are much more numerous than those born to fathers over forty. If anyone doubts it, let him go to the birth registry in any city, or to family genealogies to be found in any public library. In examining the pedigrees of intellectually eminent men I found that those born to fathers more than forty are much more numerous than those born to fathers less than thirty. The names of the men in my list are given in my Control of Heredity, and in myG reat Men. If anyone questions the results let him make up another list of equally eminent men and tell us what he finds.
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