Who discovered polygenic inheritance in human skin colour?
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Polygenic Inheritance
the determination of one complex character by nonallelic genes called polygenes, which have a cumulative effect. Under different environmental conditions, polygenic inheritance leads to a continuous, or quantitative, variation of the character in a biological population.
Most characters are quantitative, for example, an organism’s size, weight, color, and sometimes, resistance to disease, as well as many economically important properties possessed by agricultural animals, for example, the yield and fat content of milk in cows, the clip and color of wool in sheep, and the egg-laying capacity and egg size in chickens.
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