Sir Francis Galton, FRS

1. Front Matter

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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.

• genetics
• heredity
• human genetics
• Professor

• Galton Institute, London, UK

  Milo Keynes

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