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AN abstract was presented last Thursday to the Royal Society by Prof. Karl Pearson of results that apparently showed in a most conclusive way “that the mental characters in man are inherited in precisely the same manner as the physical.” His data and work have yet to be communicated, but the figures, which were given separately, for four physical characters in from 800 to 1000 pairs of brothers, and for seven mental characters in another equally large set, are closely the same in all eleven instances, and they seem to substantiate his conclusion up to the hilt.
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GALTON, F. On the Probability that the Son of a very highly-gifted Father will be no less Gifted. Nature 65, 79 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065079b0
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