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London: MacMillan and Co. ,1869. 8vo. 1st Edition. Vi + [392] + [56, list of publications] pp. Publisher's Printed burgundy cloth. A very good copy with publishers book plate inside covers ( front bookplate indicates No. 2340 ) front endpage has penciled notation. ; London: MacMillan and Co. , 1869. 8vo. 1st ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall. ""In Hereditary Genius, his best-known and most influential book, Galton investigated the heritability of scholarly, artistic, and athletic talent, using the records of notable families as data. He concluded that such talents have a high degree of heritability, and that people vary in the kind and degree of hereditary abilities they possess. He applied the Gaussian or normal curve to the range of human abilities, expanding upon Quetelet's observation that certain measurable human characteristics are distributed like the error function, and thus gave a new importance to biological and psychological variation, which had previously been regarded as unimportant"" (Haskell Norman Catalogue No. 864)."" Now Mylar protected.
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