Genetics is the study of genes and tries to explain what they are and how they work. Genes are how living organisms inherit features or traits from their ancestors; for example, children usually look ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...