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Darwinism: Critical Reviews from Dublin Review, Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review

Book by Alfred Russell Wallace, Thomas Henry Huxley, James Rowland Angell, J. Mark Baldwin, Francis Galton, Daniel N. Robinson; University Publications of America, 1977

Subjects:

Darwin, Charles--1809-1882, Evolution, Psychology, Comparative

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...published offer, in order to give a just idea of the conditions under which they were compiled. It was as follows:"Mr. Francis Galton offers 5001. in prizes to those British Subjects resident in the United Kingdom who shall furnish him before May 15, 1884...
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Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth-Century Britain

Book by Richard A. Soloway; University of North Carolina Press, 1990

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Eugenics--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Family Size--Great Britain--History--20th Century

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...review can be found in Farrall, "The History of Eugenics." 12. See Forrest, Francis Galton ; Cowan, Sir Francis Galton . See also Cowan, "Francis Galtons Statistical Ideas"; and Cowan, "Nature and Nurture." 13. Kevles. In the Name...
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My Apprenticeship

Book by Beatrice Webb; Longmans, Green and Co., 1926

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Socialists--Great Britain--Biography, Webb, Beatrice Potter--1858-1943

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...eyes. Fascinating to me was Francis Galtons all-embracing but apparently...4 Francis Galton and his wife were intimate with...singularly interesting account of Francis Galtons train of thought and methods...
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My Apprenticeship

Book by Beatrice Webb; Penguin Books Limited, 1938

Subjects:

Socialists--Great Britain--Biography, Webb, Beatrice Potter--1858-1943

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Herbert Spencer, but Francis Galton, 1 whom I used to...1 Francis Galton and his wife were...elaborate Life of Francis . Galton gives a singularly interesting account of Francis Galtons train of thought...
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The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy

Book by Raymond E. Fancher; W. W. Norton, 1987

Subjects:

Intellect, Intelligence Tests--History

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...D. W. Forrest, Francis Galton: The Life and Work...56-57. 37. Francis Galton, "Zanzibar...Raymond E. Fancher, "Francis Galtons African Ethnography...79, 1983 . 38. Francis Galton, Inquiries into...

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Age and Variability in Francis Galton's Data

Journal article by Claire K. Morse; Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 160, 1999

Subjects:

Motor Ability

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Age and Variability in Francis Galtons Data CLAIRE K. MORSE Department...ABSTRACT . Between 1888 and 1894, Francis Galton collected measurements from more...AGO, the British scientist Sir Francis Galton Darwins cousin collected various...
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Introduction Francis Galton, 'Kantsaywhere' and 'The Donoghues of Dunno Weir'

Journal article by Gregory Claeys; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

Subjects:

Eugenics--Social aspects, Galton, Francis--Conduct of life

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Introduction Francis Galton, Kantsaywhere and The Donoghues...Claeys THE AUTHOR OF THESE PIECES, Francis Galton (1822-1911), was the founder...Pearsons The Life and Letters of Francis Galton (4 vols, Cambridge University...
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The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere

Journal article by Francis Galton; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Eugenics--Analysis, Galton, Francis--Works, Manuscripts--Excerpts

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...of Kantsaywhere. by Francis Galton THE EUGENIC COLLEGE...his request. by SIR FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S. Critical...Lethbridge Karl Pearson, "Francis Galtons Utopia." The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 Volumes (Cambridge...
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The Donoghues of Dunno Weir

Journal article by Francis Galton; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

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Authors--Works, Eugenics--Analysis, Galton, Francis--Works, Manuscripts--Excerpts

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The Donoghues of Dunno Weir. by Francis Galton In this version spelling, grammar...Donoghues of Dunno Weir (1901) By Francis Galton Galton Papers 138/5, University...generally on eugenics (facing). Francis Galton (1822-1911) was an English scientist...
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The Death of the Static: H.G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia

Journal article by John S. Partington; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000

Subjects:

Anticipations (Essay)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Evolution--Social aspects, Huxley, Thomas H.--Influence, Mankind in the Making (Essay)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Modern Utopia (Essay)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Social engineering--Analysis, Utopias--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Wells, H.G.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...unequivocal rejection of Galtons views. Francis Galton first elaborated his theory of eugenics...from 1885. We owe the word to Sir Francis Galton, the founder of the science...an unanimous round-robin to Mr. Francis Galton and Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin...

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The Gentle Darwinians: What Darwin's Champions Won't Mention

Magazine article by Peter Quinn; Commonweal, Vol. 134, March 9, 2007

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Darwin, Charles--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Darwin, Charles--Research, Evolution (Biology)--Research, Evolution--Research, Naturalists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Naturalists--Research

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...biological determinism invented by Francis Galton, Charles Darwins first cousin...Wright Gillham in his A Life of Francis Galton, Major Darwin foresaw the day...of Man in 1874, he had added Francis Galtons eugenic theories and Herbert...
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Why Liberals Should Defend the Unborn

Magazine article by Mary Meehan; Human Life Review, Vol. 37, Summer 2011

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Abortion, Feminism, Genetic engineering, Leadership, Liberalism, Sexual harassment, Womens health

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...many people, both men and women, a personal stake in abortion. Thomas Malthuss obsession with population numbers and Francis Galtons ideas about breeding better humans through eugenics eventually led to a U.S. population-control movement that attained...
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Of Human Accomplishment

Magazine article by Denis Dutton; New Criterion, Vol. 22, February 2004

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...by him or by his critics, might be based. Murrays method for identifying eminence by reputation follows a form set by Francis Galtons 1869 Hereditary Genius, which also used biographical literature quantitatively, as a platform for research. But the spirit...
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The Shadow of Caliban: an Introduction to the Tempestuous History of Anthropology

Magazine article by Frank Miele; Skeptic, Vol. 9, 2001

Subjects:

Anthropology, Evolution, History, Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...later, Charles Darwins cousin, Sir Francis Galton, picked up the Bards "alliterative...variation was Darwins younger cousin, Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911). Dubbed "a Victorian...seen in two credos, the first from Francis Galton, the hereditarian and founder of eugenics...
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The Evolution of Genocide

Magazine article by Rebecca Messall; Human Life Review, Vol. 26, Winter 2000

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...Besides Charles Darwin, his cousin Sir Francis Galton, Darwins son Major Leonard Darwin...Darwin, but rather his cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who invented the name and the "science...in the same way in writing about Sir Francis Galton. Moore does discuss Galton,64 but...

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WHAT DO DARTH VADER AND FIRST-BORNS HAVE IN COMMON? [.They're Both Aggressive, Over-Bearing Enforcers with a Superiority Complex - and the Rest of Us Are the Rebel Alliance]

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 24, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...referred me to the work of the 19th-century anthropologist Francis Galton, who pointed out that a disproportionately high number...scene. Luckily, I did a bit of digging and discovered that Francis Galtons ideas about the connection between ordinal position and...
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Celebrating 350 Years of Discovery

Newspaper article; The Gympie Times (Gympie, Australia), December 5, 2009

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...storm to prove that lightning is electricity - not a supernatural force, as many people then thought. Other papers include Francis Galtons 1891 discovery that fingerprints are unique, Hawkings early work on black holes in space and a series of experiments conducted...
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HOW CHINA'S TAKING OVER AFRICA . .... and Why We in the West Should Be VERY Worried; for Africa, the Sun Is Rising in the East: China's President Hu Jintao Welcomes Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to Beijing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2008

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Continents

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...1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and...not even been discovered. Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead of his...the continent. A century after Sir Francis Galton outlined his vision for Africa, the...
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HOW CHINA IS TAKING OVER AFRICA; for Africa, the Sun Is Rising in the East: China's President Hu Jintao Welcomes Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to Beijing

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 19, 2008

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Continents

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...1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and...not even been discovered. Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead of his...the continent. A century after Sir Francis Galton outlined his vision for Africa, the...
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PRINT OF TRUE GENIUS; It Took Henry Faulds Years of Painstaking Research to Show How Fingerprints Could Be Used to Prove Guilt or Innocence, Yet Others Took the Credit for a Discovery Worthy of Sherlock Homes

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 6, 2004

Subjects:

Galton, Francis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...passed the letter to his young scientist-cousin, Sir Francis Galton. And here the story goes murky. Faulds never received...in 1791 had discovered the planet Uranus. Herschel and Francis Galton were wealthy and well-connected. Faulds was neither...

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Pearson, Karl

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...and director of the eugenics laboratory. A disciple of Francis Galton, he applied statistical methods to the study of biological...Chances of Death (2 vol., 1897), and a biography of Francis Galton (3 vol., 1914 30...
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Eugenics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...improve the human race through bettering housing facilities and other environmental conditions are known as euthenics. Sir Francis Galton , who introduced the term eugenics, is usually regarded as the founder of the modern science of eugenics; his emphasis...
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Andersson, Karl Johan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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ANDERSSON, KARL JOHAN yoo han an d rson , 1827 67, Swedish explorer in Africa. In 1850 he and Francis Galton set out from Walvis Bay (now in Namibia) to explore Damaraland and Ovamboland, but they were able only to reach the Etosha Pan...
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Darwin, Erasmus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...life according to evolutionary principles, anticipates later theories. He was the grandfather of Charles Darwin and of Francis Galton . See biography by D. King-Hele (1964). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Fingerprint

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...dates from antiquity, but modern systems began essentially with the work of Henry Faulds, William James Herschel, and Sir Francis Galton in the late 19th cent. Fingerprints gained acceptance as a more objective form of identification than visual recognition...

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