Year: 1889
Type: book
Abstract: sustained effort, need not feel much regret that the road to be travelled over is indirect, and does not admit of being mapped beforehand in a way they can clearly understand.It is full of interest of its own.It familiarizes us with the measurement of variability, and with curious laws of chance that apply to a vast diversity of social subjects.This part of the inquiry may be said to run along a road on a high level, that affords wide views in unexpected directions, and from which easy descents may be made to totally different goals to those we have now to reach.I have a great subject to write upon, but feel keenly my literary incapacity to make it easily intelligible without sacrificing accuracy and thoroughness.B 2 CHAPTER II.PROCESSES IN HEREDITY.Natural and Acquired Peculiarities.-Transmutation of Female into Male Measures.-Particulate Inheritance.-Family Likeness and Individual Variation.-Latent Characteristics.-Heritages that Blend and those that are Mutually Exclusive.-Inheritance of Acquired Faculties.-Variety of Petty Influences.The 205 male parents and the 205 female parents are each divided into three groups-T, M, and S, and t, on, and s, respectively-that is.Tall, Medium, and Short (medium male measurements being taken as 67 inches, and upwards to 70 inches).The number of marriages in each possible combination between them were then counted, with the result that men and women of contrasted heights, Short and Tall, or Tall and Short, married about as frequently as men and women of similar heights, both Tall or both Short ; there were 32 cases of the one to 27 of the other.S., t.12 cases.M., t. 20 cases.T., t. 18 cases.S. , m. 25 cases.M.;m.51 cases.T, m. 28 cases.S., s. 9 cases.M., s. 28 cases.T., s. 14 cases.Short and tall, 12 + 14 = 32 cases.
Source: Macmillan eBooks
Author: Francis Galton
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4242174109