Section 1 7 — Dermatoglyphics 



ference of the QV, from its bimanual asym- proaches Bonnevie's first hypothesis in that it 



metry and, above all, from the differences be- explains the individual QV, i.e. the value of the 



tween the finger categories, researches have been 10 fingers combined as the effect of additive 



made to detect the genetic background of the genes. 



QV. The respective paper is designed to the prob- 



K. Bonnevie (1924) developed a hypothesis of lem from a critical point of view. 

 5 pairs of polymeric genes in order to explain 

 the hereditary pattern of the so-called individual 



QV. This hypothesis was rejected by herself a The paper will be probably published in full 



few years later in favour of another one. in the Mitt.d.Anthropol. Ges. Wien or in the 



The modern English biometrical school ap- Zeitschr. f. Morphol. u. Anthrop. 



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