THE INHERITANCE OF FAMILY TRAITS 41 



increase of defective or degenerate constitutional types. 

 The character of the environment is largely responsible 

 for this." (Fig. 15). Two maps are given of this territory 

 showing the practical coincidence of the areas of shortest 

 stature and greatest number of rejections of recruits for 

 physical defects. Fifteen pages later, however, practically 

 the same map is used (Fig. 16), the greater height of the 



/Eastern boui^jdary 

 of celtic speech 



Percent 



UNDER 

 L56/AETERS 

 C5ft lilfiij 



a 6-10 



■ lo-iz 



■ 12-14 



■14^17 



LOWER 



AFTER BROtA 



BRITTANY 



■ C1650-59) 



Fig. 16. — Map of stature in Brittany showing smaller proportion of men 

 whose stature is under 1.56 meters in the region subject to Teutonic invasions. 

 Ripley: "The Races of Europe.'' 



coastal people referred to, and explained by Teutonic inva- 

 sions. ^*The residt has been to infuse a new racial element 

 into all the border populations in Brittany, while the ori- 

 ginal physical traits remain in undisturbed possession of 

 the interior.'' It appears, then, probable that the greater 

 rejection of recruits in the central country is due less to its 

 unfavorable environment than to its inadequate blood. 

 Recognizing the inheritable nature of stature it remains 



