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Genetics

Galton's rule that each generation of ancestors contributes a fixed declining share, half from parents and a quarter from grandparents, to an offspring's inheritance.

In genetics, law of ancestral heredity refers to galton's rule that each generation of ancestors contributes a fixed declining share, half from parents and a quarter from grandparents, to an offspring's inheritance. This meaning comes from Galton (1897) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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References

Galton, F. (1897). The average contribution of each several ancestor to the total heritage of the offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 61(369-377), 401-413. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1897.0052

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