Modes of research in genetics / by Raymond Pearl.

  • Raymond Pearl
Date:
1915
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    71/204 page 59
    BIOMETRIC IDEAS AND METHODS 59 would be quite unable to attack a whole series of interesting and fundamental problems of mor¬ phogenesis. Such problems, for example, as the precision of morphogenetic localization, or the degree of variability of successively regenerated structures (does the morphogenetic mechanism learn to work better with practice?), or the exist¬ ence and nature of fundamental laws of growth determining the general features of the tectonics of large groups of plants and animals, etc., demand the application of biometrie methods if they are to be adequately treated. There is a host of problems of morphogenesis of this general charac¬ ter as yet hardly touched at all by the biologists. Biometrie methods which enable us to deal with groups of things or events as groups furnish the key to the successful attack on these problems. Pioneer work in this direction is being done, but there is a vast and fertile field here, the proper cultivation of which will demand the combined efforts of many workers. To the application of appropriate biometrie methods in this field we may confidently look, I think, as the source of a significant advance in the building up of a science of causal morphology. The second fundamental contribution of biom¬ etry to biology lies in the fact that it has shown, and in the future will still more impress upon the biologist, the significance and great importance in all his work of the probable error concept.
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