HEREDITY OF WILDNESS AND SAVAGENESS IN MICE 



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savage mice are in excess, although in this particular instance 

 one third of the offspring were considered tame and non-savage. 

 In Mating 11(9 W-S X cf W-N) and Mating III ( 9 W-N 

 X cf W-S) wherein one parent in each mating was non-savage 

 the majority of the offspring, according to the above statement, 

 should be wild since each parent was wild, while the number 



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of savage and non-savage should be about equally divided. 

 From the last section of table 40 it is seen that the number 

 of wild does exceed the number of tame but in the case of Mating 

 II by only one mouse. The savage and non-savage are fairly 

 well divided (17 and 22 respectively) in Mating III but in 

 Mating II the non-savage are over five times as numerous as 

 the savage. 



