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Henry Herbert Goddard (1866–1957)
By: James Walter Dennert
| Published: May 06, 2021
Henry Herbert Goddard was a psychologist who conducted research on intelligence and mental deficiency at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-…
Intellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--HistoryHeredity
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912), by Henry Herbert Goddard
By: James W. Dennert
| Published: Jul 30, 2021
In 1912, Henry Herbert Goddard published The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, hereafter The Kallikak Family, in which…
LiteratureIntellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--History
"Experiments in Plant Hybridization" (1866), by Johann Gregor Mendel
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Sep 04, 2013
During the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to develop a theory of inheritance. In 1843, while a monk in the…
GeneticsPeasLegumesPhenotypePlant breeding
Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880-1932)
By: Samantha Hauserman
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
Muriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist…
PeopleHeredityBiochemistryEpistasis (Genetics)Genetics