Byron, Robert
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Byron, Robert (1905–41), travel writer, Byzantinist, and aesthete. His works include
The Station (1928),
The Byzantine Achievement (1929), and
The Appreciation of Architecture (1932), but he is chiefly remembered for his classic study
The Road to Oxiana (1937), a record in the form of diary jottings of a journey from Venice through the Middle East and Afghanistan to India in search of the origins of Islamic architecture and culture.
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Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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Research on heredity detailed by M. Paris and co-authors.
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New heredity study findings recently were published by A.G.F. Teacher and co-researchers.(Report)
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Findings in heredity reported from N. Ohnishi and co-researchers.(Report)
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heredity
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Heredity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Heredity of Acquired Characters
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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"Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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chromosome theory of heredity
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
chromosome theory of heredity The unifying theory put forward by W. S. Sutton in 1902 that Mendel's laws of inheritance may be explained by assuming that genes are located in specific sites on chromosomes .
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