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The moving finger writes
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The moving finger writes

  • R C Olby 

Heredity volume 21, page 523 (1966)Cite this article

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Francis Galton. Reprint of the original 1892 edition, with a new introduction by H. Cummins. De Capo Press, New York, 1965. Pp. 216+xvi. $6.95.

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