A Life of Sir Francis Galton
Nicholas Wright (James B. Duke Professor of Biology, James B. Duke Professor of Biology, Duke University) Gillham
Oxford University Press Inc, 2002
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780195143652
- ISBN-10
- 0195143655
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Year
- 2002
- Publication date
- 2002-01-03
- Pages
- 432
- Dimensions
- 241x166x31
- Weight
- 844