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100 1 _aDavenport, Charles Benedict,
_d1866-1944
245 1 0 _aBody-build and its inheritance
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCarnegie Institution of Washington. Publication no. 329
500 _a"Paper no. 35 of the Department of genetics."
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-04
508 _aBrian Wilson, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a"Body-build and its inheritance" by Charles Benedict Davenport is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It investigates how human body-build—especially the contrast between slender and fleshy types—varies through growth and across populations, and to what extent these differences arise from heredity rather than environment. Drawing on large family records, statistical analyses, and standardized measurements, it develops indices of build and examines patterns across sex, race, geography, and age. The work is a data-rich treatise for readers interested in anthropometry, growth, and genetic inheritance. The opening of the work sets out the motivation from wartime army anthropology: striking diversity in young men’s physiques prompted a focused inquiry into the hereditary basis of build. The preface outlines abundant family data, measurement conventions (e.g., weight/height notation and chest-girth adjustments), and acknowledgments to contributors, then the contents preview three major parts on definition and development, mass heredity studies, and detailed family matings. Davenport begins by clarifying popular terms for slimness and fleshiness, defining two kinds of variation (ontogenetic change versus adult fluctuation), and proposing chest-girth relative to stature as the core index; because adult chest data are often missing, weight is used as a proxy. Early results show only a small average difference between male and female indices, while racial and geographic contrasts are pronounced. He then assembles multi-source measurements to trace the ontogenetic curve: infants are relatively “chubby” at birth, dip briefly, then progressively slenderize until about 12 years before broadening again through adolescence (more in boys), with adult weight typically rising into middle age; actuarial tables are introduced to adjust youthful measures for comparison with parents. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cWashington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1923
653 _aHeredity
653 _aHuman anatomy
830 0 _aCarnegie Institution of Washington. Publication no. 329
856 4 _uhttp://www.archive.org/details/bodybuilditsinhe00daveuoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78107
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