ID# 1981:
"Theory of Ancestral Contributions in Heredity," handwritten manuscript by Karl Pearson, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society (vol. 81:547)
Date:
1909
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12)
Source:
University College London, KP, 198

&quote;Theory of Ancestral Contributions in Heredity,&quote; handwritten manuscript by Karl Pearson, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society (vol. 81:547)

[handwritten] 11 other detrimental theories). No proof or disproof of them can be directly deduced from Mr. Darlishire's memoir, but since that memoir brings evidence for the truth of Mendelian theory, it indirectly asserts the truth that ancestry is influential, at least in the field where the biometrician expects and asserts it to play a part. This paper contains only another aspect of the results reached in 1904, but it places in the simple case - the grandparentage - the actual percentage measures of the influence of ancestry according to Mendel. Its publication is the misinterpretation which is likely to be placed on the statement that "There is nothing like Ancestral Contributions within the limits of a single unit-character."[superior symbol] [long score] [repeat symbol for footnote] Darlishire: [underscore]R. Soc. Proc.[end underscore] Vol. 81 p. 71. [end]

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