. The groundwork of eugenics . SCALE OF MENTACES Fig. (x). THE GROUNDWORK OF EUGENICS 29 for other forms of life, but it appears to reach its highestintensity in the case of man (Table II). And I believe that TABLE n. PROPORTION OF MATED INDIVIDUALS WHOPRODUCE 50 PER CENT. OF THE NEXT GENERATION. Species. Data. Percentage of Matings. Man .... >i .... >» ....„ .... English (Pearson)Danish ,, New South Wales (Powys)Professional ClassesDomesticCommercial ,,Industrial ,,Pastoral ,, 2525 2323 23- Mean 25. 2527J Mice ....Poultry . .Swine .... Weldon Pearl Rommel 353639 4125 this is l
. The groundwork of eugenics . SCALE OF MENTACES Fig. (x). THE GROUNDWORK OF EUGENICS 29 for other forms of life, but it appears to reach its highestintensity in the case of man (Table II). And I believe that TABLE n. PROPORTION OF MATED INDIVIDUALS WHOPRODUCE 50 PER CENT. OF THE NEXT GENERATION. Species. Data. Percentage of Matings. Man .... >i .... >» ....„ .... English (Pearson)Danish ,, New South Wales (Powys)Professional ClassesDomesticCommercial ,,Industrial ,,Pastoral ,, 2525 2323 23- Mean 25. 2527J Mice ....Poultry . .Swine .... Weldon Pearl Rommel 353639 4125 this is largely due to certain artificial features of his civilisa-tion. At least the case of the thoroughbred race horse, withits artificial conditions, tends to confirm this Be thisas it may, it is of vital importance for the eugenist to realisehow relatively small an element of human .society is respon-sible for the next generation.^ I want to emphasise this still more emphatically. Letus assume that the 25 per cent, sup
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