THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

WE are surprised at the review of Waddington's “Introduction to Modern Genetics” by Dr. F. W. Sansome in NATURE of June 17, p. 1002. We are at a loss to know what the reviewer means when he says that ...