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Melvin Moses Knight. Taboo and Genetics
Taboo and Genetics
Table of Contents
PART I
THE NEW BIOLOGY AND THE SEX PROBLEM IN SOCIETY
BY. M. M. KNIGHT, PH.D
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
PART II
THE INSTITUTIONALIZED SEX TABOO
BY. IVA LOWTHER PETERS, PH.D
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
PART III
THE SEX PROBLEM IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
BY. PHYLLIS BLANCHARD, PH.D
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
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Melvin Moses Knight, Phyllis Mary Blanchard, Iva Lowther Peters
A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
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The type of body in each generation depends upon this germplasm, but the germplasm is not supposed to be in any way modified by the body (except, of course, that severe enough accidents might damage it). Thus we resemble our parents only because the germplasm which directs our development is a split-off portion of the same continuous line of germ cells which directed their development, that of their fathers, and so on back. This now universally accepted theory is called the "continuity of the germplasm."
It will be seen at once that this seems to preclude any possibility of a child's inheriting from its parents anything which these did not themselves inherit. The bodies of each generation are, so to speak, mere "buds" from the continuous lines of germplasm. If we develop our muscles or our musical talent, this development is of the body and dies with it, though the physical basis or capacity we ourselves inherited is still in the germplasm and is therefore passed along to our children. We may also furnish our children an environment which will stimulate their desire and lend opportunity for similar or greater advancement than our own. This is social inheritance, or the product of environment—easy to confuse with that of heredity and very difficult to separate, especially in the case of mental traits.
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