Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry
By Michael Bulmer
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: 2003-11-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0801874033
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780801874031
Binding: Hardcover
"Sir Francis Galton is a neglected scientific genius. Buried under the ignominy of having coined the word eugenics only his reputation as a dilettante amateur scientist survived. But in this book, Michael Bulmer shows that Galton was to the science of heredity what Charles Babbage was to computing. Babbage knew no electrons and Galton no genes, but their ideas have transcended the discovery of both. Bulmer gives the first full account of Galton's theory of ancestral heredity which so influenced Pearson, and shows how, with his experiments on the inheritance of seed-weight in the sweet pea, Galton did for the inheritance of continuous characters what Gregor Mendel (unknown to Galton and his generation) had done for discrete characters. Bulmer's book is a major contribution to an understanding of the path-breaking biological and statistical work of 'the father of biometry.'." -- A. W. F. Edwards, University of Cambridge, author of Pascal's Arithmetic Triangle and Likelihood
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