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It is necessary to adopt biometric methods in studying characters and variations, and to find the mean or means by coordination and seriation.
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The quote calls for using biometric methods—systematic measurement—to study traits and the ways they differ. It then recommends organizing those observations through coordination and seriation so that typical or average patterns can be identified. In plain terms, careful measurement and orderly comparison are needed to find the “mean or means” within the variation.
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