Criterion Serve Test Theories Inheritance by Pearson Karl (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Entire issue offered. Original printed wrappers. Very Good+. Also contains articles by George J. Burch, Alexander Wood, Andrew Gray, A. G. Greenhill and J. Y. Buchanan. For Pearson see D.S.B. X, pp. 447-473.

8vo. Pages 262-280. [Entire volume: viii, 548 pp.] 2 diagrams, tables. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt spine; re-backed, new end-leaves. Ex library copy, paper spine label removed. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Francis Galton was influenced by Darwin's belief that inheritance is conditioned by a blending mechanism. Galton propounded his law of ancestral heredity, which set the average contribution of each parent at 1/4, of each grandparent at 1/16, and so forth. Pearson and his colleagues pursued the notion in a series of sophisticated researches, but Galton's law received withering criticisms after the rediscovery, in 1900, of Mendel's work on particulate inheritance. Here Pearson proposes a variability criterion between contending theories of inheritance. See: DSB, X, pp. 447-473.

Condition: VG. 1904. Article at pp. 262-280 (complete) in one entire issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society Vol. LXXIII, No. 493, May 1904. Issue also has articles by George J. Burch, Alexander Wood, Andrew Gray, A. G. Greenhill and J. Y. Buchanan. Octavo, original printed wraps. VG, light chip at heel of spine, light cover wear. Scarce in original wraps.