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ALL biologists must be grateful to Prof. Karl Pearson for his extremely valuable and interesting, paper reported in your issue of December 5, 1901 (p. 118). Inasmuch, however, as his conclusions are likely to be taken as the settled results of scientific research, it may be appropriate at this time to express certain doubts which naturally arise on reading the abstract. A man at the age of thirty, for example, possesses certain physical, intellectual and moral qualities. These must be due to more than one class of factors, and may possibly be due to three:—
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COCKERELL, T. The Inheritance of Mental Characters. Nature 65, 245 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065245d0
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