A life of Sir Francis Galton : from African exploration to the birth of eugenics / Nicholas Wright Gillham.
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TextPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 1423761227
- 9781423761228
- 1280531460
- 9781280531460
- 9786610531462
- 6610531463
- 0195349431
- 9780195349436
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911
- Geneticists -- England -- Biography
- Eugenics -- History
- Genetics -- History
- Généticiens -- Angleterre -- Biographies
- Eugénisme -- Histoire
- Génétique -- Histoire
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics
- Eugenics
- Geneticists
- Genetics
- England
- 576.5/092 B 22
- QH429.2.G35 G53 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-397) and index.
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Preface; Prologue: Francis Galton in Perspective; I. ANTECEDENTS AND BEGINNINGS; 1 An Enviable Pedigree; 2 Metamorphosis: From Birth to Medical School; 3 A Poll Degree from Cambridge; 4 Drifting; II. GEOGRAPHY AND EXPLORATION; 5 South Africa; 6 Making Peace with Jonker Afrikaner; 7 Expedition to Ovampoland; 8 Fame and Marriage; 9 Riding High with the Royal Geographical Society; I. The Great Lakes of Africa; 10 Riding High with the Royal Geographical Society; II. Stanley Faces Off with the Geographers; 11 Weather Maps and the Anticyclone; III. THE TRIUMPH OF THE PEDIGREE.
12 Hereditary Talent and Character13 Gemmules, Rabbits, Germs, and Stirps; 14 Nature and Nurture; 15 Sweet Peas and Anthropometrics; 16 Probing the Mind; 17 Fingerprints; 18 The Birth of Biometrics; 19 Galton's Disciples; 20 Evolution by Jumps; 21 The Mendelians Trump the Biometricians; 22 The Triumph of the Pedigree: Eugenics; Epilogue: Out of Pandora's Box: The First International Congress of Eugenics; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was an African explorer, the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, a statistician, and the founder of the eugenics movement. This text is a portrait of this Victorian polymath.
English.
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