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Sir Francis Galton, FRS

The Legacy of His Ideas

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Milo Keynes

    1. Galton Institute, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Biology, Economy and Society (SBES)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Sir Francis Galton — A Man with a Universal Scientific Curiosity

    • Milo Keynes
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Historical Galton

    • W. F. Bynum
    Pages 33-44

  4. Francis Galton: Travel and Geography

    • Dorothy Middleton
    Pages 45-53

  5. Meteorographica and Weather

    • Crispin Tickell
    Pages 54-61

  6. Intelligence and Hereditary Genius

    • H. J. Eysenck
    Pages 62-74

  7. The Galton Lecture for 1991: Francis Galton — Numeracy and Innumeracy in Genetics

    • J. H. Edwards
    Pages 75-90

  8. Galton, Karl Pearson and Modern Statistical Theory

    • A. W. F. Edwards
    Pages 91-107

  9. Galton on Human Growth and Form

    • J. M. Tanner
    Pages 108-118

  10. Galton and the Use of Twin Studies

    • C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
    Pages 119-143

  11. Galton and the Study of Fingerprints

    • Gertrud Hauser
    Pages 144-157

  12. Galton and Evolutionary Theory

    • John Maynard Smith
    Pages 158-169

  13. Galton’s Conception of Race in Historical Perspective

    • Michael Banton
    Pages 170-179

  14. Galton, the Educationist

    • W. H. G. Armytage
    Pages 180-189

  15. The Galton Laboratory, University College London

    • J. S. Jones
    Pages 190-194

  16. Three Memoirs

    • Francis Galton
    Pages 195-213

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 214-237
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'...this is a splendid, first-class book, the definitive book on Francis Galton and his legacy. The editing has been superb...The timing of its publication is excellent in relation to the increasing interest in human genetics in all areas of the biological and behavioural sciences'.R.Plomin, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a grandson of Erasmus Darwin, was one of the most versatile men of his time. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer. He worked at the prediction of weather, and described his discovery of the anticyclone He first became an anthropologist in 1862 when he joined the Ethnological Society. He initiated anthropometry and the measurement of human variation, and the use of photography for the analysis of differencies, or individual characteristics, in a group. He recognised the uniqueness of Finger Prints, and, in 1875, first used the records of pairs of identical twins in his researches into the laws of heredity. Besides contributions to human genetics, Galton devised the correlation coefficient, and was thus concerned with the advancement of statistics. In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant 'good in birth' and 'noble in heredity', and, in 1904, he founded the Galton Laboratory at University College, London. He was first President of the Eugenics Education Society in 1907.

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  • Galton Institute, London, UK

    Milo Keynes

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