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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics by Nicholas Wright Gillham
Francis Galton's Art of travel (1872) A reprint of The art of travel; or, Shifts and contrivances available in wild countries by Francis Galton
The Art of Travel by Francis Galton
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, V. 91, Pt. 2) by Gerald Sweeney
Phoenix: The Art of Travel (1872): Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Francis Galton
Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry by Michael Bulmer
Finger Prints by Francis Galton
Natural Inheritance by Francis Galton
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences by Francis Galton
English Men of Science (Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914) by Robert H. Wozniak
Hereditary Genius (Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914) by Robert H. Wozniak
A guide to Francis Galton's English men of science by Victor L. Hilts
Extreme Measures : The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton by Martin Brookes
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences by Francis Galton
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911) was an English explorer, statistician, anthropologist, advocate of eugenics (he coined the term), and investigator of the human mind.
He was born near Sparkbrook, Birmingham and was Charles Darwin's half first cousin, his mother and Darwin's father having been children of Erasmus Darwin by separate marriages.
His inquiries into the mind involved detailed recording of subjects' own explanations for whether and how their minds dealt with things such as mental imagery.
Galton's 1869 work, Hereditary Genius, popularised historiometry.
In statistics, Galton was the first to describe and explain the common phenomenon of regression toward the mean in the 1870s and 1880s. After examining forearm and height measurements, Galton introduced the concept of correlation in 1888. His statistical study of the probability of extinction of surnames led to the concept of Galton-Watson stochastic processes.
The method of identifying criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1870s by William Herschel. In 1892, 1893 and 1895 Galton wrote three books about the technique, identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day. He also estimated the probability of two persons having the same fingerprint and studied the heritability and racial differences in fingerprints.
Galton invented the Quincunx, also known as the bean machine as a tool for demonstrating the law of error and the normal distribution.
Galton was knighted in 1909, and died in Haslemere, Surrey.
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Nearly all of Galton's published work has been made available online, including all his major books and over 300 of his scientific papers, at http://galton.org
Topics relating to Charles Darwin
Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin;
Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin)
Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection.
Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge
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