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Journal of Heredity 2004:95(3):273-273
© 2004 The American Genetic Association

Book Review

Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry

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Michael Bulmer.

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2003. 376 pp. $45.00.

I was delighted when I was asked to review this book, as I have quoted Galton often, whenever I give a talk on twins in fact. And I have also used the picture of this great man that adorns the cover of this most interesting volume.

The book is superbly researched by another, more modern, biometrician, Michael Bulmer, who, in 1970, wrote a comprehensive book on the Biology of Twinning in Man. In that book, Bulmer quotes Galton . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Kurt Benirschke

Department of Pathology UCSD Medical Center 200 W. Arbor Dr. San Diego, CA 92103


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