. Body-build and its inheritance. Heredity; Human anatomy. THE BACK CROSS. 137 m c Rec Family, B. (Fig. 47.) Ill 1 $ , fleshy, with a fleshy father and slender mother, married to III 2 $ (plate 9, fig. 2), who at 53 years has a stature of 150 cm. (59 inches) and weight of much over 90 kg. (200 pounds) ; build (57) ; obese. Her relative chest-girth is 135-^150, or 90 per cent; extraordinarily obese. At 16, when married, she weighed 110 pounds; build (32); medium. 4 of her 4 sibs and both parents are exceedingly obese (her mother weighs 163 kg. [360 pounds] and has a build of [100]).
. Body-build and its inheritance. Heredity; Human anatomy. THE BACK CROSS. 137 m c Rec Family, B. (Fig. 47.) Ill 1 $ , fleshy, with a fleshy father and slender mother, married to III 2 $ (plate 9, fig. 2), who at 53 years has a stature of 150 cm. (59 inches) and weight of much over 90 kg. (200 pounds) ; build (57) ; obese. Her relative chest-girth is 135-^150, or 90 per cent; extraordinarily obese. At 16, when married, she weighed 110 pounds; build (32); medium. 4 of her 4 sibs and both parents are exceedingly obese (her mother weighs 163 kg. [360 pounds] and has a build of [100]). The foregoing pair had 5 children, 4 of whom died young. The other, IV 2 9 , at 36 years has a stature of 168 cm. (66 inches) and weight of 104 kg. (229 pounds); build (53) ; very fleshy. Her relative chest-girth is 130 -f-168, or 77 per cent. She had at her marriage, when 23 years old (to a slender man), a build of (33), medium grade. After marriage she increased rapidly in weight, menstruation became scant, she lost the sex- instinct, and is barren (plate 7, fig. 3). Comment.—A tendency to extreme obesity runs in four generations. This is apparently of the adiposo-genitalis type, with sterility in the latest generation. Obvious dominant factors are at work here (73 : 714). Rid Family. (Fig. 48.) II 2 S died at 54 years; short and weighed 110 kg. (240 pounds); build, say, (56); very fleshy. A brother who died at 52 of apoplexy was fleshy, married a fleshy woman, and had a fleshy son. The mother of this frater- nity was fleshy; about her consort's build nothing is known, but he had a fleshy sister (II).. Cb-a "n-Q rahT® 6 —7—^8—9—10 II «2 4 44444 ft *Akk A 2 3 4 - 5 6 7 14 15 |6 17 18 4 19 20 2\ Dt<Od 2 3 4 Fig. 48.—Pedigree chart showing distribution of build in the Rid family. II 3 5 , wife of II 2, died of senility at 89; she weighed over 90 kg. (200 pounds). She had 7 sibs: (1) II 4 $ died of epilepsy, was of medium weight, married, and ha
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