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PROBABLY most geneticists to-day are some-what sceptical as to the value of the mathematical treatment of their problems. With the deepest respect, and even awe, for that association of complex symbols and human genius that can bring a universe to heel, they are nevertheless content to let it stand at that, believing that in their own particular line it is, after all, plodding that does it. Although it is true that most text-books of genetics open with a chapter on biometry, closer inspection will reveal that this has little connexion with the body of the work, and that more often than not it is merely belated homage to a once fashionable study.
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.
Dr. R. A. Fisher. Pp. xiv + 272 + 2 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1930.) 17s. 6d. net.
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PUNNETT, R. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection . Nature 126, 595–597 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126595a0
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