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was doing the same thing in his experiments 

 with garden peas, but inasmuch as Mendel's 

 work remained practically unknown for many 

 years, Galton has been rightly recognized as 

 the founder of the scientific study of heredity. 

 Of course, neither Galton nor anyone else 

 who has followed his method of dealing with 

 the characters of organisms singly, ever sup- 

 posed that such characters could exist inde- 

 pendently of other characters and apart from 

 the entire organism. This is such a self-evi- 

 dent fact that it may seem needless to mention 

 it, and yet there have been critics who have 

 believed, or have assumed to believe, that 

 modern students of heredity attempt to an- 

 alyze organisms into independently existing 

 characters, whereas in most cases they have 

 done only what the anatomist does in treating 

 separately the various organs of the body. 



HEREDITARY RESEMBLANCES AND DIFFERENCES 



The various characters into which an organ- 

 ism may be analyzed show a greater or smaller 

 degree of resemblance to the corresponding 

 characters of its parents. Whenever the dif- 



