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... 46 PATHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE ETHNIC MIND 82 PART II THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ETHNIC MIND INTRODUCTION · CHAPTER I THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOMATIC ENVIRONMENT 123 · 126 CHAPTER II ETHNIC MENTAL DIVERSITY FROM COGNATIC CAUSES . HEREDITY V.
... 46 PATHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE ETHNIC MIND 82 PART II THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ETHNIC MIND INTRODUCTION · CHAPTER I THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOMATIC ENVIRONMENT 123 · 126 CHAPTER II ETHNIC MENTAL DIVERSITY FROM COGNATIC CAUSES . HEREDITY V.
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... HEREDITY ; HYBRIDITY ; RACIAL PATHOLOGY . CHAPTER III THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT . CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF THE GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT . PAGE • 147 163 180 INDEX 201 IT INTRODUCTION T is strange that not in any language ...
... HEREDITY ; HYBRIDITY ; RACIAL PATHOLOGY . CHAPTER III THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT . CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF THE GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT . PAGE • 147 163 180 INDEX 201 IT INTRODUCTION T is strange that not in any language ...
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... heredity , hy- bridity , and others , including mental as well as physical traits . His debt is large to these , but still larger , say some writers , to his contemporaries , the associates with whom he has been thrown from birth ...
... heredity , hy- bridity , and others , including mental as well as physical traits . His debt is large to these , but still larger , say some writers , to his contemporaries , the associates with whom he has been thrown from birth ...
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... Heredity , Hybridity , and Racial Pathology . Heredity . In body and mind , the child resembles his parents , the individual his ancestors . This is the principle of fixity of type , the permanence of species . Neither in body or mind ...
... Heredity , Hybridity , and Racial Pathology . Heredity . In body and mind , the child resembles his parents , the individual his ancestors . This is the principle of fixity of type , the permanence of species . Neither in body or mind ...
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... weak traits , the latter betraying a feebleness of self - per- petuation compared to the former . I have been discoursing of physical heredity and some of its observed laws . This has not been DIVERSITY FROM COGNATIC CAUSES 149.
... weak traits , the latter betraying a feebleness of self - per- petuation compared to the former . I have been discoursing of physical heredity and some of its observed laws . This has not been DIVERSITY FROM COGNATIC CAUSES 149.
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