Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — Anchostral Characteristic. [ARTICLE]

Anchostral Characteristic.

That fragility of bones is a dominant characteristic in some families, and is handed down through the generations according to the regular Mendelian laws of descent, is the Conclusion reached by Davenport and Conrad, American eugenists. They find it rare that a fragile child has not had parents and other ancestors with the same weakness;- A striking example of this falling is a child that has Both thigh bones broken soon after birth and at thirty-four months had had not less than a dozen fractures of important bones, although the bones showed no deformity or softness.