
Pages
440
Published
1868
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
THE great principle of inheritance to be discussed in this chapter has been recognised by agriculturists and authors of various nations, as shown by the scientific term Atavism, derived from atavus, an ancestor; by the English terms of Reversion, or Throwing-back; by the French Pas-en-Arriere; and by the German Ruckschlag, or Ruckschritt.