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Body-build and its inheritance

Charles Benedict Davenport · 1923

A 1923 scientific monograph by Carnegie Institution geneticist Charles Benedict Davenport examining whether human body build, from slender to fleshy, is inherited. Drawing on family records and measurements, it analyzes how hereditary and environmental factors shape differences in physique.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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