Thoughts For The Times
Laws or Hekeditv. The laws of heredity are less simple than many imagine. A child is not merely the product of its immediate progenitors. He is the last bud on an ancestral tree wlio6e roots ramify through the centuries and draw constituent- qualities from innumerable sources. In the generations a child has 1024 ancestors. From those closest to him he draws most freely, as from parents and grandparents, but by some sport be may inherit certain traits from a distant source which cause him hardly to resemble liis actual brother at all. If a healthy person and an unfit marry, some of the children may be healthy, while a certain proportion, probably more than half will be in some way or other defective. If then this family marries in such a way that unlit mates unfit, and fit mates fit, the probabilities of the unfit section passing on their defective qualities will be a certainty; none will escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1920, Page 2
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