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Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—III. Regression, heredity, and panmixia' by Karl Pearson

Reference number: RR/13/95

Date: 27 October 1895

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The line of research the author uses will be fertile in the future.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

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RR/13/95
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27 October 1895
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Report on paper
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4 pages
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George Howard Darwin, Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—III. Regression, heredity, and panmixia' by Karl Pearson, 27 October 1895, RR/13/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_95/referees-report-by-george-howard-darwin-on-a-paper-mathematical-contributions-to-the-theory-of-evolutioniii-regression-heredity-and-panmixia-by-karl-pearson, accessed on 24 January 2026

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