404 IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE 



Problem Questions 



1. What is social inheritance? How has it played a part in civilization? 



2. Give some examples of practical euthenics in your communit3^ 



3. How does the " triangle of life " play a part in your future ? 



4. What proofs are there that certain determiners of unit characters are 

 handed down in the chromosomes? 



5. List the physical characters known to be inheritable by Mendel's 

 Laws and see if you can account for the appearance of any of them in your 

 family. 



6. What diseases are inherited in families ? Do you find any evidences of 

 such diseases in your community? 



7. Show how the science of eugenics should deal with a family like the 

 " Jukes " or " Kallikaks." 



8. What evidence have we that " blood will tell " in the heredity of genius ? 



9. In what ways can you personally make use of this chapter ? 



10. Would inherited characters play any part in choosing a vocation? 

 Explain. 



11. Would habits play any part in making good in life? Explain. 



Problem and Project References 



Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. American Book Company. 



Allen, Civics and Health. Ginn and Company. 



Coulter, Castle, East, Tower, and Davenport, Heredity and Eugenics. Univer- 

 sity of Chicago Press. 



Davenport, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Henry Holt and Company. 



Goddard, The Kallikak Family. The Macmillan Company, 



Jordan, The Heredity of Richard Roe. American Unitarian Association. 



KeUicott, The Social Direction of Human Evolution. D, Appleton and Com- 

 pany. 



Morgan, The Chromosome Theory of Heredity. Lippincott Company. 



Parsons, Choosing a Vocation. Houghton Mifflin Company. 



Punnet, Mendelism. The Macmillan Compan5^ 



Richards, Ellen M. Euthenics, the Science of Controllable Environment. 

 Whitcomb and Barrows. 



Walter, Genetics. The Macmillan Company. 



