The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance

The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance is a scientific paper by British statistician and geneticist Ronald Fisher which was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1918, marking a significant milestone in genetics. In this study, Fisher integrated Mendel's principles of inheritance with statistical techniques to clarify how characteristics could manifest as both continuous and still be regulated by distinct genetic factors. By closing this gap, Fisher demonstrated that the mixing patterns observed in complex traits could arise from the cumulative effects of numerous individual genes, all adhering to Mendelian principles. This link established the basis for contemporary quantitative genetics and assisted in merging biological inheritance with mathematical evaluation.