The History & Development of Human Genetics

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Participants

• Introduction

• Opening remarks — The ‘recovery’ of human genetics

• Early British discoveries in human genetics: Contributions of R. A. Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane especially to the development of blood groups

• H. J. Muller and human genetics

• The development of linkage analysis

• The early history and development of human and medical genetics in Canada

• History and development of human genetics in France

• The non-interaction of regulatory genetics and human cytogenetics in France, 1955–1975

• Notes for the history of human genetics in Italy

• A zoologist's input into human genetics: An essay on the role of N. W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky in the history of human genetics in the U.S.S.R.

• History and development of human genetics in Hungary

• History of human genetics and eugenics in Japan

• Comments on Dr. Matsunaga's paper

• The history and development of human genetics in Israel

• Development of human genetics in Egypt

• Influence of Mendelism in the development of human genetics in Chile

• History and development of human genetics in Brazil

• Mendelism and the theory of hereditary diathesis

• History and development of human genetics in India

• J. B. S. Haldane's impact on human genetics in India