“Galton's”

We have one entry that includes the term Galton's.

Galton's law of inheritance

: a theory in genetics: the parents of an individual together contribute on an average 50 percent of the total inherited characters, the 4 grandparents together 25 percent, the 3d generation of ancestors together 12.5 percent, etc. compare mendel's law


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