A guide to Francis Galton’s English Men of Science. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN. Westfall, eds., Foundations of Scientific Method: The Nineteenth Century. Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA (originally published 1869). Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data. Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature. The history of twins, as a criterion of the relative powers of nature and nurture. Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather. Galton on examinations: An unpublished step in the invention of correlation. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.įancher, R.E. Statistics in Psychology: An Historical Perspective. Francis Galton’s statistical ideas: The influence of eugenics. Sur les probabilités des erreurs de situation d’un point. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īravais, A. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Galton’s “Anthropometric Laboratory” (1882) constituted the first large-scale attempt at what today we call intelligence testing, and his Finger Prints (1892) developed the method for classification and analysis of fingerprints still used by law enforcement agencies today. His “The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture” (1875a) initiated modern behavior genetics with the twin-study method, and “A Theory of Heredity” (1875b) correctly anticipated major aspects of Weismann’s germ-plasm theory of hereditary transmission. In “Hereditary Talent and Character” (1865) and Hereditary Genius (1972, originally published 1869) he introduced the linked ideas of “hereditary genius” and eugenics: the notion that human intellectual abilities are hereditarily determined to the same extent as physical attributes, and therefore that human evolution can potentially be accelerated or self-consciously guided through the adoption of selective mating practices. In Meteorographica (1863) he presented the world’s first weather maps, and announced the discovery of the “anticyclone” or high-pressure weather system. His Tropical South Africa (1853) described his exploration and mapping of the present-day country of Namibia. The versatile Englishman Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911) contributed importantly to many different fields.
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