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Bulmer, M. G.

Francis Galton : pioneer of heredity and biometry / Michael Bulmer. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.

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


English.

ISBN: 9780801881404 0801881404 9780801874031 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0801874033 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper)

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA3V7854 bnb GBA3-V7854

Subjects--Personal Names:
Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.
Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911
Galton, Francis, 1822-1911.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Geneticists--England--Biography.
Genetics--History.
Biometry--History.
Genetics--history
Genetics--England.--Biography
Biometry--History.--England
Genetics--History.--England
Genetics--England--Biography.
Biometry--History.--England
Biometry--history
Genetics
Geneticists--England.
Généticiens--Angleterre--Biographies.
Génétique--Histoire.
Biométrie--Histoire.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Genetics & Genomics.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
Biometry.
Geneticists.
Genetics.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
England
England.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Biography
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: QH429.2.G35 / B856 2003eb

Dewey Class. No.: 576.5/092 B

National Agricultural Library Call No.: QH429.2.G35 / B856 2003

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2004 B-332 WZ 100 / G1815B 2003