📚 Heredity

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with heredity on their catalogue record, first published between 1859 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject heredity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,306 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
On the origin of species by means of natural selection	Charles Darwin	1859	259
Hereditary genius	Sir Francis Galton	1869	59
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex	Charles Darwin	1870	48
Mendel's principles of heredity	William Bateson	1902	42
Mendelism	Reginald Crundall Punnett	1905	33
Darwin and after Darwin	George John Romanes	1892	24
The Blank Slate	Steven Pinker	2002	24
Heredity in relation to eugenics	Charles Benedict Davenport	1911	23
The Gene	Siddhartha Mukherjee	2016	20
Natural inheritance	Sir Francis Galton	1889	17
Human heredity	Michael R. Cummings	1988	14
The language of the genes	Steve Jones	1991	14
Natural selection and heredity	P. M. Sheppard	1958	12
The theory of the gene	Thomas Hunt Morgan	1926	11
Keimplasma	August Weismann	1893	10
Genetics	Herbert Eugene Walter	1913	10
Human blood groups and inheritance	Sylvia D. Lawler	1951	10
Heredity	J. Arthur Thomson	1908	9
The methods and scope of genetics	William Bateson	1908	9
Principles of genetics	Edmund Ware Sinnott	1925	9
Heredity	Mason Anders	2017	9
Heredity	Théodule Armand Ribot	1875	8
Genetics and eugenics	William E. Castle	1916	8
Zi ran chuang zao shi	Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel	1935	8
Genetics notes	James F. Crow	1950	8
Hair traits	Buffy Silverman	2012	8
DNA, Genes, and Chromosomes	Mason Anders	2017	8
Inheritance	Sharon Moalem	2014	7
The Jukes	Richard Louis Dugdale	1877	6
The human harvest	David Starr Jordan	1907	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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