NATURAL INHERITANCE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
I HAVE long been engaged upon certain problems that lie at the base of the science of heredity, and during several years have published technical memoirs concerning them, a list of which is given in Appendix A. This volume contains the more important of the results, set forth in an orderly way, with more completeness than has hitherto been possible, together with a large amount of new matter.
The inquiry relates to the inheritance of moderately exceptional qualities by brotherhoods and multitudes rather than by individuals, and it is carried on by more, refined and searching methods than those usually employed in hereditary inquiries.
One of the problems to be dealt with refers to the curious regularity commonly observed in the statistical peculiarities of great populations during a long series of
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