PEP | Article - Taboo and Genetics—A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundations of the Family: By M.M. Knight, Ph.D., Iva Lowther Peters, Ph.D., and Phyllis Blanchard, Ph.D. (Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, 1920. Pp. xv + 301. Price $3.00.)

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Abstract

This book is divided into three parts. The first of these parts, by M. M. Knight, is devoted to 'The New Biology and the Sex Problem in Society' and contains information as to the biological rôle of sex and the processes of reproduction and heredity at different biological levels, together with an account of a good deal of the modern work on internal secretions, Mendelism and Eugenics. Part 2 on 'The Institutionalized Sex Taboo', by Iva Lowther Peters, treats the subject from the point of view of anthropology and ethnology, indicating the nature of the principal

PEP | Article - Taboo and Genetics—A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundations of the Family: By M.M. Knight, Ph.D., Iva Lowther Peters, Ph.D., and Phyllis Blanchard, Ph.D. (Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, 1920. Pp. xv + 301. Price $3.00.) - F., J. C.