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Francis Galton : pioneer of heredity and biometry / Michael Bulmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bulmer, M. G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geneticists--England--Biography.
- Geneticists.
- Genetics--History.
- Genetics.
- Biometry--History.
- Biometry.
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
- Galton, Francis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A graceful writer and an expert biometrician, Bulmer details the eventual triumph of biometrical methods in the history of quantitative genetics based on Mendelian principles, which underpins our understanding of evolution today.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 A Victorian Life
- 2 Hereditary Ability
- 3 Eugenics
- 4 The Mechanism of Heredity
- 5 Four Evolutionary Problems
- 6 The Charms of Statistics
- 7 Statistical Theory of Heredity
- 8 The Law of Ancestral Heredity
- 9 Discontinuity in Evolution
- 10 Biometry
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Chronology: p. [xiii]-xiv.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-349) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8140-4
- OCLC:
- 559350911
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