law of filial regression

the principle that inherited traits tend to revert toward the mean for the species; for example, very tall fathers tend to have sons shorter than themselves but taller than the population mean, and very short fathers tend to have sons taller than themselves but shorter than the population mean.

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November 22nd 2024

corpus planning

see language planning.