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biometry|baɪˈɒmɪtrɪ|
[See bio- and -metry.]
†1. The measurement of life; the calcuation of the average duration and expectation of life. Obs.
1831Whewell Let. 12 Nov. (1876) II. 135 By the way there is a problem in Biometry (if you choose to call your calculations on lives by a Greek name) which may perhaps be included. 1875Med. Rec. X. 481 Biometry: its relations to the practice of medicine. 1881Index-Catal. Libr. Surg-Gen. U.S. II. 66/2 Biometry, see anthropometry; longevity.
2. The application of mathematics to biology, esp. the study of resemblances between living things by statistical methods.
1901F. Galton in Biometrika I. 9 The primary object of Biometry is to afford material that shall be exact enough for the discovery of incipient changes in evolution which are too small to be otherwise apparent. 1927Haldane & Huxley Anim. Biol. ii. 72 When we take the averages of large numbers these irregularities become smoothed out, and we find a strong average resemblance, due to heredity, between parent and offspring, or between brothers and sisters. The science of biometry deals with studies of this sort. 1942Nature 18 Apr. 428/2 Thus with Pearson defending biometry and Bateson advocating Mendelism a feud arose. |