Behavior Genetics
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Human Behavior Genetics
To illustrate a point concerning the inheritance of gestures, Charles
Darwin quoted an interesting case that had been brought to his attention by
Galton.
A gentleman of considerable position was found by his wife to
have the curious trick, when he lay fast asleep on his back in
bed, of raising his right arm slowly in front of his face, up to his
forehead, and then dropping it with a jerk so that the wrist fell
heavily on the bridge of this nose. The trick did not occur every
night but occasionally. Many years after his death, his son
married a lady who had never heard of the family incident. She,
however, observed precisely the same peculiarity in her
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