GALTON, FRANCIS. - FIRST BOOK OF THE STATISTICAL STUDY OF BIOLOGICAL VARIATION.

Natural Inheritance.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1889. Orig. full cloth, uncut. Light wear along edges. Part of hinges neathly repaired. Small tears to spine ends. IX,(4),259,(3) pp. Internally clean and fine.

First edition. - "By the employment of statistical Methods Galton propounded a "law of filial regression". This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance."(Garrison & Morton No. 233).
"The Natural Inheritance was his outcome of his work over the past 15 years on statistical techniques related to genetics. This includes develpment of the concept of correlation coefficients and the formula for the standard error of estimate."(Parkinson, Breakthroughs).

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