THE CORRELATION OF ANATOMICAL OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS

Abstract

It is one of the objects of anthropometric investigations to establish types of certain varieties of man, the result of anthropometric statistics being a means of describing in exact terms a certain variety and its variability. This method of describing varieties has been applied so far in the case of man and of domesticated animals only. In most cases biologists have been satisfied with verbal descriptions of varieties and of variability and no attempts at an exact definition have been made. It is clear, however, that the method may be applied advantageously in all investigations of variation and a biometric method would undoubtedly open new ways of attacking the problems of variation and transformation.