Notes on Ancestral Relationships

Date:
1895
Reference:
GALTON/2/4/9
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Galton Papers
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Notes on Ancestral Relationships. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Galton's notes, titled "On the greatest number of ancestral relationships of like degree, to a member of a population that has sprung from a single couple"; plus a clipping from The Gardeners' Chronicle containing a letter written by Galton, requesting advice on a proposed experiment "intended to be carried on by a process of "backward selection"... to learn the number of generations that must elapse before the original form is reached, under specified conditions of culture and selection."

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1895

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3 folios

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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