GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
1822 – 1911
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source not stated · Scanned from Karl Pearson 's The Life, Letters, and Labors of Francis Galton . · Public domain
1869 CE
#226
Hereditary genius.
Galton investigated the families of great men and suggested that genius was hereditary, and thus founded the science of Eugenics, although he did not coin the word until 1883 (see No. 230). Karl Pearson’s, The l…
1883 CE
#230
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics. In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically “the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of…
1889 CE
#233
Natural inheritance.
By the employment of statistical methods Galton propounded a “law of filial regression”. This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance.
1892 CE
#186
Finger prints.
The use of fingerprints as identification marks was known to the Chinese, but Galton was among the first to explain their possibilities in the identification of criminals. “Galton’s delta” is a trian…
1897 CE
#239
The average contribution of each several ancestor to the total heritage of the offspring.
Galton’s “law of ancestral heredity”.
1907 CE
#1709