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will accrue from a complete and detailed knowledge of the technical genetic situa-
tion in each case. We are far from agreeing on the importance which inbreeding
and outcrossing should receive in breeding for productivity.

I hope that such discussion as this, which of itself solves no problems, may
nevertheless contribute to their solution by formulating them more clearly and
particularly by presenting to our colleagues in more classical branches of biology
some view of the nature and complexity of the problems that are still unanswered.
Measurement looms large in such problems. This explains the importance of
quantitative methods in applied genetics.