02269nam 2200601Ia 450 991081874230332120240416173310.00-8018-8140-4(CKB)1000000000451193(OCoLC)559350911(CaPaEBR)ebrary10070295(SSID)ssj0000157936(PQKBManifestationID)11155938(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157936(PQKBWorkID)10144545(PQKB)10225970(MdBmJHUP)muse2506(Au-PeEL)EBL3318236(CaPaEBR)ebr10070295(OCoLC)923192135(MiAaPQ)EBC3318236(EXLCZ)99100000000045119320030327d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrancis Galton pioneer of heredity and biometry /Michael Bulmer1st ed.Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press20031 online resource (375 p.) Chronology: p. [xiii]-xiv.0-8018-7403-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-349) and index.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.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.GeneticistsEnglandBiographyGeneticsHistoryBiometryHistoryGeneticistsGeneticsHistory.BiometryHistory.576.5/092BBulmer M. G102870MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818742303321Francis Galton3962660UNINA