Abstract
Monitoring the human population is not the preferred way of detecting and identifying environmental mutagens. It is far better that they be discovered in advance, before they come into use. The methods discussed elsewhere in this book are intended for screening potentially dangerous chemicals and removing or restricting those that are found to be mutagenic. The belated discovery of an increased human mutation rate tells us that the screening system has failed. The damage is already done, and will be felt by our descendants for many generations in the future.
Paper No. 1362 from the Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Crow, J.F. (1971). Human Population Monitoring. In: Hollaender, A. (eds) Chemical Mutagens. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8969-3_13
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