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THE problem of the “antedating” of family diseases is one of very great interest, and is likely to be more studied in the near future than ever it has been in the past. The idea of antedating, i.e. the appearance of an hereditary disease at an earlier age in the offspring than in the parent has been referred to by Darwin, and has no doubt been considered by others before him. Quite recently, studying the subject on insanity, Dr. F. W. Mott speaks of antedating or anticipation as “nature's method of eliminating unsound elements in a stock” (“Problems in Eugenics,” papers communicated to the First International Eugenics Congress, 1912, p. 426).
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PEARSON, K. On an Apparent Fallacy in the Statistical Treatment of “Antedating” in the Inheritance of Pathological Conditions.. Nature 90, 334–335 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090334b0
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