Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
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Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings / by Alexander Walker. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1866.

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viii, 384 pages : portraits ; 19 cm

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Concepts of heredity played a powerful role in structuring 19th-century debates over disease, sexuality, morality, class, race, intellect, gender, and evolution. Walker is also the author of Beauty: Illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women (1836) and Women physiologically considered as to minds, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity, and divorce (1839)

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