Non Fiction, Science, Biology, Genetics, Contents: 1 What genetics is about, 2 Gregor Mendel, 3 The chromosomes, 4 The genes, 5 Mendel's first law: Segregation, 6 A very little statistics, 7 Of sheep, mink and dogs, 8 Genes that kill, 9 Of monkeys and men, 10 Human blood groups, 11 Danger to infants, 12 Genetics counseling, 13 Eugenics, 14 "It's a boy", 15 Father's girl, mother's boy, 16 Nature and Nurture, 17 Twins, 18 Is intelligence declining?, 19 The game of life: Mendel's second law, 20 Linked genes, 21 Johannsen's beans, 22 A success story: hybrid corn, 23 Genes and characters, 24 What the gene does, 25 What the gene is, 26 DNA, 27 Mutation, 28 The monopoly of the genes in inheritance, 29 Evolution as seen by the geneticist, First published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961, hardcover, 273 pp., hardcover, 8vo; First UK edition, Hutchinson, London, 1962, 273 pp.; First Italian edition, Milano, Mondadori, 1971, 270 pp, under the title: "Caratteri, eredità e ambiente: introduzione alla genetica", translated by Maria Ciccioli e Lucia Maldacea. ( )