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IT seems well to put on record the principal results of experiments that I have recently made to isolate the particulars in which one portrait differs from another. They had a measure of success, but not enough to deserve illustration or lengthy description. The objects I had hoped to attain are important; namely, to define photographically the direction and degrees in which any individual differs from the race to which he belongs, the race being represented by a composite picture of many individuals belonging to it. Or, again, to define the particulars in which any variety of a plant or animal differs from its parent species. Or to define family features; or to isolate expressions, recollecting that these consist both of subtractions from, and additions to, the features as seen in repose.
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GALTON, F. Analytical Portraiture . Nature 62, 320 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062320a0
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