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  1. R. H. Compton, “On Right- and Left-Handedness in Barley,”Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. xv. p. 495, 1910.

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  1. J. C. Schoute, “Die Bestockung des Getreides,”Verh. d. K. Akad. v. Wetensch. t. Amsterdam (Tweede Sectie); Deel xv. No. 2, pp. 8–24, Feb. 1910.

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  2. Failure of this regular alternation ofLH andRH leaves is mentioned by Schoute (loc. cit. p. 20), and also by Stratton and Comptera, “On Accident in Heredity, with Special Reference to Right- and Left-Handedness,”Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. xv. p. 508, 1910.

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  1. Compton, 1910, p. 497.

  2. Ibid. p. 499.

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  1. Hackel, “Gramineae,” in Engler and Prantl,Nat. Pflfam. ii. 2, p. 4.

  2. Percival,Agricultural Botany, p. 511.

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  1. Cf. Compton, 1910, p. 496, first foot-note.

  2. Another case of an hereditary ring-fasciation is described in my paper on “The Anatomy of the Mummy Pea,”New Phytologist, x. p. 249, 1911.

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  1. “Dimorphism and Rhizomycete of. Maize,”Princeton Coll. Bulletin, v. p. 84, Nov. 1893.

  2. “Antidromy in Plants,”Amer. Naturalist, xxix. p. 973, Oct. 1895.

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  1. A somewhat fanciful comparison may be made with the Cyprinodont fishAnableps anableps, in which according to S. Garman (Amer. Naturalist, p. 1012, 1895)

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  1. Compton, 1910,. p. 501.

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  1. An essentially similar hypothesis has been suggested by van Biervliet to account for the apparent inheritance of human right- and left-handedness (see footnote to p. 68).

  2. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxii. p. 379, 1895.

Reference

  1. See W. Bateson and R. C. Punnett, “On the Inter-relations of Genetic Factors.”Proc. Roy. Soc. B, Vol. lxxxiv. p. 6, 1911. “On Gametic Series involving Reduplication of certain Terms,”Verh. d, naturf. Ver. in Brünn, Bd. xlix. 1911 andJourn. Genet. Vol. i.1911.

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  1. Recherches sur l’usage des feuilles, p. 179, 1754.

  2. A. H. Church,The Relation of Phyllotaxis to Mechanical Laws, pp. 92, 351, London, 1904.

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  1. H. E. Jordan (“The Inheritance of Left-Handedness,”American Breeders’ Magazine, Vol. II, pp. 19, 113: 1911) gives a number of human pedigrees which show that functional left-Handedness is hereditary, in certain cases apparently in conformity with a simple Mendelian scheme. The most remarkable human pedigree on record is perhaps that given by Aimé Péré (Les courbures latérales normales du rachis humain, Toulouse, 1900, p. 71: quoted by D. J. Cunningham, “Right-Handedness and Left-Brainedness,” Journ. Anthropol. Inst. xxxii. p. 273, 1902). In this family no fewer than twenty-six left-handed individuals are recorded: the marriage of a LH ♀ x RH ♂ gave eight sons and six daughters, all left-handed,—a fact in strong contrast to Jordan’s hypothesis of the dominance of right-handedness, and suggesting the reverse assumption. A number of other instances of inheritance of left-handedness in man are given by F. Lueddeckens (Rechts- und Links-händigkeit, Leipzic, 1900). A general summary, with a full bibliography, of our present knowledge of human asymmetry is given by K. von Bardeleben (“Ueber bilaterale Asymmetrie beim Menschen und bei höheren Tieren,” Anat. Anz. Ergänzungsh. z. Bd. xxxiv. p. 2, 1909).

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Compton, R.H. A further contribution to the study of right- and left-handedness. Journ. of Gen. 2, 53–70 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02981547

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