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IN his Huxley lecture, Prof. Karl Pearson gives the result of a prolonged investigation into the inheritance of the mental and moral characters in man (see NATURE, vol. lxviii. p. 607, October 22, 1903). His main conclusion is a remarkable one; it is that “the physical and psychical characters in man are inherited within broad lines in the same manner, and with the same intensity. … We inherit our parents' tempers, our parents' conscientiousness, shyness and ability, even as we inherit their stature, forearm and span.”
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D., F. Inheritance of Psychical and Physical Characters in Man 1 . Nature 70, 137–138 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070137b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/070137b0