Jackson Wheat | Genetic Inheritance @JacksonWheat | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Sources:
Textbooks:
- Campbell biology, 11th Edition, Chapter 14 “Mendel and the Gene idea” and chapter 15 “The chromosomal basis for inheritance”
- Evolutionary analysis, Chapter 9 “Evolution at Multiple Loci: Quantitative Genetics”. Especially section 9.7 “The Bell-Curve Fallacy and Other Misinterpretations of Heritability”
Why Everyone Overlooked Gregor Mendel's Groundbreaking Paper
forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/08/why-everyone-overlooked-gregor-mendels-groundbreaking-paper/?sh=214bff937d76
Myths of Human Genetics
[many textbook examples of human “Mendelian traits” are not Mendelian at all]
https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythintro.html
Genes involved in human skin pigmentation
espcr.org/micemut
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317488
Genomics of Developmental Plasticity in Animals
frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00720/full
The Bell Curve Revisited: Testing Controversial Hypotheses with Molecular Genetic Data
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5679002
Ned Block “How Heritability Misleads about Race” [a more thorough deconstruction of the Bell-Curve]
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Heritability.html
Recommended video: PZ Myers “BadGenetics”
youtu.be/uDeNDX4geXo?list=WL
Sources:
Textbooks:
- Campbell biology, 11th Edition, Chapter 14 “Mendel and the Gene idea” and chapter 15 “The chromosomal basis for inheritance”
- Evolutionary analysis, Chapter 9 “Evolution at Multiple Loci: Quantitative Genetics”. Especially section 9.7 “The Bell-Curve Fallacy and Other Misinterpretations of Heritability”
Why Everyone Overlooked Gregor Mendel's Groundbreaking Paper
forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/02/08/why-everyone-overlooked-gregor-mendels-groundbreaking-paper/?sh=214bff937d76
Myths of Human Genetics
[many textbook examples of human “Mendelian traits” are not Mendelian at all]
https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythintro.html
Genes involved in human skin pigmentation
espcr.org/micemut
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317488
Genomics of Developmental Plasticity in Animals
frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00720/full
The Bell Curve Revisited: Testing Controversial Hypotheses with Molecular Genetic Data
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5679002
Ned Block “How Heritability Misleads about Race” [a more thorough deconstruction of the Bell-Curve]
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Heritability.html
Recommended video: PZ Myers “BadGenetics”
youtu.be/uDeNDX4geXo?list=WL
