The 1949 edition of this book was the first American text on the subject written by a geneticist of the post-eugenics school. An experimental geneticist himself, Stern brought together material illustrating the ways in which the concepts of the fast-growing science could be applied to human data. His book was sober, accurate, and analytical—neither a museum of congenital monstrosities nor a harangue for sterilization of the unfit. It had a great influence toward the development of a sound science of human genetics. It was followed in 1960 by a larger, updated, second edition in the same tradition. We now have a still larger third. All three editions of Stern's book have aimed at an encyclopedic rather than an introductory coverage of the subject. This aim was substantially achieved in the first two editions, but the third no longer has the former comprehensiveness. The years since 1960 have seen genetics revolutionized
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