VAIM \TlM\ \\h IlKU.hri N 17 



pl.-\it\ to a higher, btit the revers< MH-. < Thus 



experimental l ha* shown tliat the white coat of 



tin- hor.se i> imt a .simple Character, but in doe to several 



:ly inheritahle factors. 11 

 Besides Mendel'.- Law, th-re are (laltmr- two M 



la\\s of iuh.-ir degression and the 



Law of Ann ! 1 1 h, . Thr Law of Regression 



as first expounded was basl upon measurement* of th< 

 Mature of uv,-r 900 Engli.-h IHT-OI. '..ilton founi 



thf statuiv of an iiulivilual i- .l-t.-rmiiH-l hy tin* 



racial type to which thr parrnts belong, modified, how- 



mlriir;. :o a t\p- int-nnr<liate be- 



tween the sprcial variations representnl hy th.- parents, 



xamplr, if tlir fatlirr i> thr nmtlirr 



somewhat tallrr than the average, the children tend to 

 which is somewhat ii.-ar the racial 

 type, but at the same time depemlmt UJMUI an intr 

 nirdiatr value located between the stature of thr m- 

 and that of thr fatlirr. This law appeared to hold for 



ill' ritance of sf eye-color, and arti>tir ahility. 



Kists have rritirized Galton's law> on the ground 



liry lump together both inhrritnl and non iuli. 



.tioiis. The Law of Ance-tral luh.-ritaih-r >howed 



on the average each parent contributes ! 4 of 



inhrritr.l fa.-ult\. SMb i:raiii|.;i-. lit M, and SO on. 



avr shown that the intrnsit. 



it may be expressed by about V4. n 



Thr principle may be made Hrar hy |uting from l>r. 

 Boas: " I'mvi.lr.l the inotlirr <litTers in her stature by an 

 amount of ! cm. from the racial norm, for install 



' Thomson A Grdd, o; 137. 



ort. ../.. - OUon. of. cit.. ch. ri. and ril. 



11 the Uw of Man." Riomrtrikm. roL ii. 



p. 357 .M.I IkMft, F.- in AnthropMMtrie TraiU." .4wr. 



.4n/Aro/H>/,- if, \ &, vol. iv. p. 4*3 ft Mf. 



