He began to study human heredity, and much of his effort was later turned to promoting eugenics.

They carry the estimated 100,000 genes that make up the complete archive of human heredity, called the genome.

The study shows a unique natural experiment spanning over two centuries and is considered an essential academic work in the area of human heredity.

Eugenics, the study of human heredity in order to find ways to improve future generations through selective reproduction.

Until then, the laws of human heredity had been unable to explain Trisomy 21 and other anomalies in hereditary material.

New genetic knowledge will permit us to tinker with human heredity and manipulate the genes to create altogether new versions of man.

Its aims are "to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproductive technology".

It appeared in their 1921 work Human Heredity, which insisted on the innate superiority of the Nordic race.

Population genetics owes its origin to Francis Galton, who put the study of human heredity on a mathematical footing.

The latest research into human genetic variation, interestingly enough, is rewriting the rules, raising questions about the validity of race as a tool for understanding human heredity.