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TABLE III.-Descent of Qualities in a Population. (The difference between the sexes only affects the value of the Unit of the Scale of Distribution.)

Conditions.-(r) Parents• to be always alike in class, (2) Statistics of population to continue unchanged,
(3) Normal Law of Frequency to be applicable throughout.

 

Per loo Father (or

Mothers).

2 ~~

35 18o

v u

7

671

t

i6

1614

a

25

2500

r

25

I

25001614

16

7

672

T

2

~~

180 35

U V

100

10,000

Totals

Per 10,000   „

Names of classes

 

R

S

Sons 1 of   J Fathers

Daughters f   35 t Mothers

„   18o   „

t of class V ..

j

U ...

3

3   r8

5   47

10   57

10   33

6   10

34 168

2

6

421

140,

224'i

170

611

121

71

6551623

7

57

248

510

509

23

52

6

i

i6

4

44

253

678

86o

512

150

20

1

2522

1

20

150

512

86o

678

253

44

4

252

6

52

234

509

510

248

57

7

162

16

12

61

170

224

140

4

6

655

7

To 6

33 10

57 10

47 5

18   3

3

168 34

` -~

2

Sons (or

daughters)

35

180

672

1613

2502

2502

1613

672

180

35

10,004

671   „

'~   1614   +,

~~   2500   „

2500 ~~

1614   „

„   671

„   18o   „

++   35

„   T ...

,;   S ...

„   R ...

r ...

„   8 ...

t   ...

„   u ...

v ...

Total io,ooo Fathers (or Mothers)

 

„   100   10   ,,

...   ...

25

2

Note.-The agreement in distribution between fathers (or mothers) and sons (or daughters) is exact to the nearest whole per centage. The slight discrepancy in the ten-thousandths is mainly due to the classes being too few and too wide; theoretically they should be extremely numerous and narrow.