288 Heredity and the Jew 



Gentile liusbaiid, and she has a child who is without a trace of Jewish- 

 ness. 



I have met with an abundance of cases which illustrate the same 

 phenomenon, but I have not classified them statistically nor do I show 

 the pedigrees, because it is rarely that one can describe individuals 

 without the smallest possible hesitation, as " characteristically Jewish," 

 " Jewish," or " non-Jewish " in expression, as one is able to do in this 

 family. Nevertheless, I have not met an exception to the rule that the 

 pseudo-Gentile appearance is recessive to the fully Jewish, where the 

 Jevvishness of the features are strongly pronounced. In those cases 

 where the Jewishness of the features is weak and more or less con- 

 jectural, then in matings of such with the pseudo-Gentile type, 

 both Jewish and non-Jewish types may be found amongst the children. 



The results, therefore, seem to show with very little doubt, that 

 this pseudo-Gentile face is an essentially different thing from its 

 Teutonic counterpart. Whereas the latter is dominant to the Jewish, 

 the former is as decidedly recessive. Such an apparent paradox as the 

 dominance of one type and the recessiveness of an apparently exactly 

 similar one is not unknown to the student of heredity. It has been 

 met with by Bateson and Punnett(l) in their research on the plumage 

 of fowls, and by Bateson in the colour of flowers(3). I have myself, 

 working on heredity in potatoes(13), come across one case where the 

 white potato is recessive to the purple and another where an apparentlj' 

 similar white is dominant to tlie purple. 



The facts that have been described above may, I think, throw some 

 light on the question of the purity or otherwise of the Jews. The 

 Jewish features have been shown to be recessive to the Northern 

 European (and I have cases indicating that they are recessive to the 

 native Italian), to the native Indian, to the Cliinamau, and to the negro. 

 If then the Jew had freely intermixed with the European races as some 

 authors think is the case, it is obvious that, tiie characteristic facial 

 type being recessive, it would have been rapidly swamped. But the 

 very reverse is the case: it is the one thing which practically all 

 observers are agreed is common to the Jewish people. It has been 

 suggested by the Pan-Germanic school of Chamberlain and others, that 

 whatever good qualities the Jews possess are due to the admixture 

 in them of a fair-haired race, probably Amorites who were, according to 

 these writers, of Germanic la-igin. It is indeed more than probable 

 that the fair features found amongst Jews are derived from Amorites or 

 other people of non-Semitic blood in their early home, but it has 



