Typical Laws of Heredity
@article{TypicalLO,
title={Typical Laws of Heredity},
author={},
journal={Nature},
volume={15},
pages={492-495}
}WE are far too apt to regard common events as matters of course, and to accept many things as obvious truths which are not obvious truths at all, but present problems of much interest. The problem to which I am about to direct attention is one of these.
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