s 



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2 



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Mendelian research, and the sport may transmit his 

 qualities to his descendants, establishing perhaps a 

 definite breed, perhaps a transient strain. 



In a mixed race like our own, the different types 



33 Jf 35 36 37 38 39 W fl 42 43 44 45 46 47 43 

 /NCHES Of CHEST MEASUREMMr 



FIG. 4. 



pass by such insensible gradations into each other, 

 that the population for some purposes may be treated 

 as a homogeneous strain showing wide variations. 

 Almost any character of a large section of the 

 people, when its variations are plotted, gives a curve 

 approximating to a normal curve of error. The 

 chest measurement of Scottish soldiers (Fig. 4), already 

 considered on page 28, or the marks gained by 



