Comparative Genetics of Coat Color in Mammals
Published 1968 · 84,700 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Science & Nature, Nonfiction
How hard is Comparative Genetics of Coat Color in Mammals to read?
Comparative Genetics of Coat Color in Mammals scores 49 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- A genetics monograph on coat colour in mammals will lean on specialist terms for loci, alleles and pigment biology. The vocabulary is technical but functional, closer to a research reference than to the ornate registers of literary fiction.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Scientific exposition of this kind usually uses measured, declarative sentences with qualifying clauses. The syntax asks for care, but it stays well short of the nested constructions of Henry James.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- The subject is concrete, since it covers observable coat colours in animals and how they are inherited. Genetic reasoning adds a layer of abstraction, but it stays tied to specimens and crosses.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- A comparative survey across mammal species in about 308 pages with illustrations packs in many facts and cross-references. Readers meet new data on nearly every page.
How Comparative Genetics of Coat Color in Mammals is regarded
Comparative Genetics of Coat Color in Mammals holds a literary regard score of 28 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.