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IT is not a raid, but a victorious invasion, that Prof. Karl Pearson and his school have made into the realms of anthropology, with the result that all that part of it which deals with men in the mass becomes an annex of the mathematician. The invasion occurred at a most opportune time; great collections of data which had been accumulated by the anthropologist threatened to bury him, for he had neither the method nor the appliances for welding them into a composite whole. Especially was this the case with the endless measurements of brain-weights obtained most laboriously by the anatomist and pathologist; they urgently required an application of the “mathematical science of statistics.” Hence the series of articles which occupy the greater part of a number of Biometrika1 published a few months ago are particularly welcome; they lay a foundation for an exact knowledge of this subject.
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References
See Keith, “The Growth of Brain in Man and Monkeys” (Jour. Anat. and Physio., vol. xxix., p. 288. 1895).
Eugen Dubois . “Ueber die Abhängigkeit des Hirngewichtes von der Körpergrösse bei den SÄugethieren” (Archiv f. Anthrop, Bd. xxv., 1899; see also Keith, loc. cit.).
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The Biometrics of Brain-Weights . Nature 73, 200–203 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073200a0
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