Transmissible and nontransmissible components of anthropometric variation in the Alexanderwohl Mennonites: II....

A study of the intergenerational transmissibilities of 34 anthropometric measures from the Alexanderwohl Mennonite congregations of Kansas and Nebraska is presented. Results presented tend to confirm the suggestion made previously by us (Devor et al., 1985) that patterns of transmissibility conform to a concept of "functional multifactorial complexes" operating in the body in a way analogous to the "field" concept of dental morphology.