EXERCISE 94 (Continued) 



Do you find that many of the children closely resemble the parents in height ? Before you draw 

 any conclusions look over lines c and j and other lines, to see whether the relations you find in 

 line f are generally true. 



So far as you can determine by this study, what do you think about the probable average 

 resemblance of a child to its parents? Try to write your conclusion in the form of a general rule 

 about the likeness of the offspring to parents. 



Additional problems. Compare the average heights of parents (column 1, b to j) with average heights 

 of their children (column 16). Find the difference between these figures in each horizontal line, marking 

 the differences by the plus sign (+) if the children average taller than their parents and by the minus sign 

 ( ) if they are shorter. Do the children of unusually tall parents average more unusual than their parents or 

 less unusual ? Are children of unusually tall parents taller than the average of all ? Are any of them taller 

 than their parents ? Make the same study regarding the unusually short persons. In general, do the 

 children of unusual parents average as unusual as the parents ? 



If the rule of inheritance shown above holds good for such characteristics as mental ability, moral 

 tendencies, tendencies toward insanity and feeble-mindedness, what is the advantage of being " well-born" ? 



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