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Galton's ratios
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Galton's ratios

  • R C Olby1 

Heredity volume 23, pages 155–156 (1968)Cite this article

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  • Galton, F. 1869. Hereditary Genius. John Murray, London.

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  • Galton, F. 1875. J anthrop Inst, 5, 329–348.

  • Galton, F. 1889. Ancestral Inheritance. John Murray, London.

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Olby, R. Galton's ratios. Heredity 23, 155–156 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1968.19

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  • Received: 25 September 1967

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