![]() | Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity Theodore M. Porter is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Peter Reill Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age , Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life , and The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (all Princeton). He lives in Altadena, California. |
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