21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics
Presents a facsimile of Charles Davenport's 1911 "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics," the first textbook on human genetics to appear in the twentieth century, and includes twelve essays that explore questions about genetic variation, mental illness, nature versus nurture, human evolution, and others that preoccupied Davenport and continue to challenge scholars a century later.
