The Correlation Between Relatives On The Supposition Of Mendelian Inheritance
"The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance" is a scientific paper by R.A. Fisher which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1918, (volume 52, pages 399–433). In it, Fisher puts forward a genetic model that shows that continuous variation amongst characters could be the result of Mendelian inheritance. The paper also contains the first use of the statistical term variance.
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