Under the influence of Malthus’s law of population growth: Darwin eschews the statistical techniques of Aldolphe Quetelet

Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, and Francis Galton were all aware, by various means, of Aldolphe Quetelet’s pioneering work in statistics. Darwin, Maxwell, and Galton all had reason to be interested in Quetelet’s work: they were all working on some instance of how large-scale regularities emerg...

Ausführliche Beschreibung