The American Naturalist · 1923 · 16 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesGeneticsFamily StudiesHuman GeneticsKinship StudiesFamily HistoryInheritance PatternsKinship ClassificationKinship TheoryMen In FamiliesMendelian InheritanceCoefficient Of RelatednessHuman AncestryMendelian Inheritance AnalysisPaternal InfluencesPedigree InformationRelatedness Structure
The data show (1) that a brother of a man of science is twice as likely to be distinguished as a father, four times as likely as an uncle and about six times as likely as a first cousin, and offspring three times as likely as nieces and nephews; (2) that paternal and maternal influences are not unequal; (3) that the number of relatives in the remote degrees though not strictly comparable show results consistent with the more complete accounts of those in the nearer.