Concluding Remarks of the Chairman

The trend toward specialization in science is met by successful, wide reaching trends toward unification of separate disciplines. This conference is witness of the growing together of anthropology and genetics which has taken place during the last decade. Our meetings were not so much a mutual education than a mutual consideration of problems of common concern. The anthropologists spoke the geneticists' language, and the geneticists had already gone beyond their Drosophilae or mice to some knowledge of the anthropological problems. Moreover, the speed in the spread of knowledge from one field to the next, and the bearing of very contemporary studies in basic general genetics on the problems in the special field of anthropological genetics, as well as the stimulus from the latter field to thinking in the former, was an experience which gave us all happy satisfaction.