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Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

1 Introduction

2 A Proper Science: Mathematics, Experience, and Argument in Nineteenth-Century Science

3 Evolution by the Numbers: Mathematical Arguments in The Origin of Species

4 Hidden Value: Mendel, Mathematics, and the Case for Uniform Particulate Inheritance

5 Probable Cause: Rhetorical Strategies and Francis Galton’s Arguments for a Mathematical Model of Inheritance

6 Behind the Curve: Karl Pearson and the Push for Theoretical Mathematical Biology

7 Weightless Elephants on Frictionless Surfaces: The Ethos of Biometry

Afterword

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author