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| | Mendel Newsletter n.s. 9 (February 2000) |
 | | The images illustrate many facets of eugenics endeavor, including "fitter families" competitions at state fairs, exhibits from scientific meetings, annotated posts cards of circus acts, eugenic tests and surveys, field notes, family pedigree studies, hereditary diseases, marriage counseling, congressional testimony on immigration restriction, sterilization laws, anthropological studies, and correspondence between noted eugenicists. |
 | | Over the course of the next decade and a half, the story developed to explain the origins of both thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, producing theoretical insights into heterozyote advantage and the spread of genetic mutations in large populations, and indirectly helped to spark the proliferation of biochemical and molecular genetics. |
 | | Neel's classic population genetic work, combined with the work of Linus Pauling, Harvey Itano, Anthony Allison, and others, had a profound impact on both medical practice and evolutionary theory. |
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