Sir Francis Galton, FRS - The Legacy of His Ideas (Hardcover)

Part of the "Studies in Biology, Economy and Society" series, this book looks at Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a grandson of Erasmus Darwin. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer, writing "The Art of Travel", and was on the council of the Geographical Society for many years. He worked at the prediction of weather, and described his discovery of the anticyclone to the Royal Society in 1862 and in "Meteorographica" (1863). He first became an anthropologist in 1862 when he joined the Ethnological Society, which emerged to become the Anthropological Institute in 1871 - Galton was president from 1885 to 1889. He initiated anthropometry and the measurement of human variation, and the use of photography for the analysis of differences, or individual characteristics, in a group. He recognized the uniqueness of "Finger Prints" (1893), and, in 1875, first used the records of pairs of identical twins in his research into the laws of heredity. It was on the publication of the "Origin of the Species" by his cousin Charles that he realized the importance of inheritance and the transmission of characters of body and brain from parent to child. His "Hereditary Genius" came out in 1869, "Inq

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Biology, Economy and Society
Release date:	July 1993
First published:	1993
Editors:	Milo Keynes
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	237
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-54695-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Medical genetics Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Genetics (non-medical) > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-333-54695-4
Barcode:	9780333546956

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