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THE theory of the gene is derived from the study of factors which can be followed individually by means of their clear-cut phenotypic effects. However those characters which are the most important to the breeder show continuous variation and are not obviously controlled by genes. Thus, something of a gap, which research has been slow to bridge (owing to preoccupation with discontinuous inheritance), has separated the gene theory from biometry, the science dealing with metrical characters.

Biometrical Genetics

The Study of Continuous Variation. By Prof. K. Mather. Pp. ix + 162. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1949.) 18s. net.

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OWEN, A. Biometrical Genetics. Nature 164, 420–421 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164420a0

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