Pedigrees of Negro Families

Authors:

Publish Date: 1950/03/01

Volume: 79, Issue: 3, Pages: 607-608

PDF Link

Abstract

From the study of the pedigrees of slightly more than 200 families the author concludes in the light of the work of others that inheritance in the Negro race is nowise different from that in other races a finding hardly startling in 1949 The families are mainly from the United States but also from Canada various parts of the West Indies and British Guinea Hence they represent considerable and varying admixture as the data themselves show The authors blanket use of the terms Negro and race is thus scientifically equivocal It merely follows that social usage which would designate as a Negro the possessor of a single Negroid gene or identifiable physical character

Keywords: