Show I THE TRE Tl LAWS L VS OF OP O HEREDITY Three Generations to Make a Gen Is Fact Pact Not Nat Theory Not Theor London Telegraph Professor Karl Pearson F R H S who has h da taken a leading part Dart in founding the doctrine d of or db evolution voluton on a statistical dd basis asis b explained to a deeply interested au d at the Royal Institution the he t some of results which have been arrived at Two T TI wo of these are ure of ot special importance it I I t Is shown by b ae examination of or large num bers b ers of persons that that mental m and moral ns as a aa s well wel as al physical qualities are Inherited aP and a nd to o the tho same extent Taking school children hildren c and examining them minutely with wih w ith respect to curliness and wh color of hair hal h air length breadth and height of the head h ead color of or the that th te eyes cephalic in dex d cx and health on o the ono one hand and on tv the t he other testing them for land Int Ul ence vivacity v cons popularity temper emper t shyness O and h hi handwriting the degree of inheritance In In i n the two categories came numerically as a s close as 51 to 52 S cae Secondly it is ps proved roved p that t at two or three generations i will tree suffice s to create a new stock Statistics of o f large numbers show that there Is tt than han t is often oren supposed hi In the ther more takes akes t three generations i saying sing It to make a n gen make leman t and in the expression Visiting the he t sins of the fathers te the upon children tg to t o the third and fourth generation te gree grce g ree in humanity as In the lower animals is i s a n vital factor Thus Thuc Thus a family or a nation allon n will certainly naton ne wl progress or degen erate rath e as the l Issue ue of oC heredity It deen needs b I but ut to repress the t numbers number of or the better and a ao nd higher and to multiply the numbers beter pf of o f the low lower er and ad less fit tt for two or three generations g to make national ion tion ton t terribly real Professor Profesor Pearson Pearsons tabular t to results showed the of oC o t the laws laws of ot inheritance not universality only In i animals like Ike horses and nd dogs but In lowly In i and Ad even eve In i plants |