HIGH DEATH RATE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 388, 24 November 1932, Page 6

HIGH DEATH RATE

IN INFANCY LAW OF LIFE REACTS AGAINST THE MALE. CONSTITUTIONAL INFERIORITY. New Yorlc, November 6. Dr. S. J. Holmes, of the University of California, pointed out to the International Congress of Genetics at Ithaca that the male sex apparently suffered from a "constitutional inferiority," which caussd a higher death rate among males than among females in infancy and before birth. This rule, he said, applied to many speeies of animals as well as humans, and seemed to result from a difference in heredity of males and females. "In many other speeies of animals (besides man) the life of the male is comparatively short." Dr. H. Newman, of the University of Chicago, who has studied the comparative effects of hereditary environment of twins, said he found) in ten pairs of identical twins ranging in age from thirteen to fifty-eight years, all of wh'om were separated in infancy and brought up apart from one another, and the hereditary differences were twice as potent as the differences resulting from environment. Dr. C. B. Davenpert, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, predieted that medical skill and the policy of State care of defectives will lead to the future development of far more "types" of humanity than now exist.