The Human Pedigree. Inheritance and The Genetics of Mankind

This book is about genetics and how our genes create our differences. Family likeness, inherited ability or disability, sex-linkages and sex differences are all the material of genetics. Genetics can assert your child's parentage, or deny your part of her in his or her creation of her. We can predict others merely by examining the parents (or their parents). Genetics is the past, the present and the future. This book is therefore part history, part biology, part customs - such as marraige and outbreeding - and part modern science. The author is certain that we shall not be so casual in producing the next generation as our forefathers were in creating us.