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FAMILY STUDIES IN BUILD. 



to be of the 5-factor X 4-factor type. On this assumption we have a 

 percentage of 17 M and F + 83 VF. This approaches the proportions 

 found. Accordingly, the 6-factor hypothesis is preferable. 



The progeny are more variable than those derived from two slender 

 parents as 5.74 ± 0.39 is to 3.13 ± 0.17. 



Details concerning the families included in table 24 are given below. 



Table 24. — Matings of a very fleshy parent and a fleshy parent of fleshy stock, together with 



their progeny. 



* Also 4 younger children, 10 to one-half years, all fleshy for their ages. 



Can Family. (Fig. 27.) 



A family of Italian extraction, living in a poorly furnished, very much 

 overcrowded, home in a poor Italian neighborhood in a factory city. 

 I 1, $ , was tall and very fleshy; died of "heart disease." 



I 2, 9 , was tall and very fleshy and had a brother of similar build. This 

 very fleshy pair had 3 children, as follows: 



II 1 and II 4 both very fleshy. II 5 at 46 years 171 cm. (67 inches) tall 

 (without shoes) and weighing 96 kg. (212 pounds) net; build 3.3 (47), very 

 fleshy. His chest-girth, 106 cm. net; relative chest-girth 62 per cent,' The 

 result suggests that the parents were homozygous for fleshiness. 



II 5 married II 6, who at 45 years is 152 cm. (60 inches) tall (in bare feet) 

 and weighs over 90 kg. (200 pounds), build 3.9 (56). Her net chest-girth 

 is 110 cm., relative chest-girth is 72. This very fleshy pair has 9 surviving 

 children, as follows: the eldest, III 3, a boy at 23 years is said to be slender 

 (not seen), married, without children. The second, III 5, $ , at 22 vears 

 is fleshy, as he has always been; married, without children. Ill 7, $ , at 

 19 years is slender but was fleshy until the age of 18 years. Ill 8, $ , at 17 

 years is short and fleshy. Ill 9, $ , at 12 years is short and fleshy. Ill 10, 

 9 , at 10 years is 136 cm. (53.5 inches) tall, and weighs about 45 kg. ( 100 

 pounds) ; build 2.5 (35). Her chest-girth is 85 cm. net, relative chest-girth 

 63. This indicates a girl of far above average relative chest-girth, fleshv. 

 Ill 12 is a girl of 9 years with a relative chest-girth of 80 -=- 135 or 5*9, 



