Lewis W. Taylor

The Inheritance of Egg Production in the Domestic Fowl

THE problem of inheritance of egg production in the domestic fowl has attracted considerable attention, particularly because of the practical implications of the subject. As is the case with many other characters of economic import, the progress towards the solution of the problem has been rather slow. In fact, to date only two significant landmarks in the history of investigations in this field can be pointed out. The first of these is a series of papers by Pearl (1909 et seq.) which constituted the initial fruitful investigation of the question, while the second is the methodological innovation introduced by Goodale (1918). The voluminous literature on the subject built up since videe Jull, 1940), deals with many important points, but practically in all cases they are elaborations and refinements of what may be called the Goodale principle.