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> as lemmasGalton's curve Galton's law n. the formula proposed by Galton to account for ancestral heredity, by which the parents each contribute a quarter of the characters to their offspring, the grandparents each contribute an eighth of the characters, and so on; also, the tendency of offspring of outstanding parentage to regress to, or below, the average for the species; so Galton's curve, etc.< |