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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

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

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...solidly Darwinian, with some interesting nuances. Sir Francis Galton 1822-1911 Galton, of course, was not a psychologist primarily...complemented by the two-volume biography, Life of Galton , written by his great admirer and disciple, Karl...
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Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century

Book by David Howie; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Bayesian Statistical Decision Theory, Fisher, Ronald Aylmer--Sir--1890-1962, Jeffreys, Harold--Sir--1891-, Probabilities

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...105 134 1992 . D. W. Forrest, Francis Galton: the Life and Works of a Victorian...Experiments End Chicago: 1987 . F. Galton, Natural Inheritance London: Macmillan...Geisser, The contributions of Sir Harold Jeffreys to Bayesian inference...
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Patrick Geddes, Maker of the Future

Book by Philip Boardman; The University of North Carolina Press, 1944

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Geddes, Patrick--Sir--1854-1932

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...could not insure that its members would understand what he was driving at or follow his suggestions for action. When Francis Galton appeared before the society at the opening meeting to expound the new subject of "Eu-genies -- the science of...
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Published Essays: 1940-1952

Book by Ellis Sandoz, Eric Voegelin; University of Missouri Press, 2000

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Europe--Race Relations, Germany--Race Relations, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832, History--Philosophy, More, Thomas--Sir, Saint--1478-1535--Utopia, National Socialism--Germany, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--1844-1900, Philosophy, Political Science--Philosophy, Race, Racism--Germany, Scientism, State, The, Totalitarianism

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...random may serve to illustrate the expansion of the race idea into the field of social sciences since the 1890s: Francis Galton. Hereditary Genius. 1869, 2nd ed., 1892. Rpr. New York: Horizon Press, 1952. Otto Ammon. Die Gesellschaftsordnungund...
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Religion, Education and Adolescence: International and Empirical Perspectives

Book by Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Jeff Astley; University of Wales Press, 2005

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Religious Education Of Teenagers, Teenagers--Attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...churchgoing adolescents LESLIE J. FRANCIS Summary There is growing empirical...pioneering statistical enquiries of Sir Francis Galton (1869, 1872, 1883). Writing in the Fortnightly Review, Galton (1872: 125) stated his case...

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Eugenics and Utopia: Sexual Selection from Galton to Morris

Journal article by Patrick Parrinder; Utopian Studies, Vol. 8, 1997

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Eugenics--History, Galton, Francis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Morris, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--History

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...Mifflin, 1966. Blacker, C.P. Eugenics: Galton and After. London: Duckworth, 1952...of Mr Wells. London: Doubleday, 1995. Galton, Sir Francis. MS. notebook dated Spring 1901. Galton Papers, University College London. Item...
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The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere

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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...College of Kantsaywhere. by Francis Galton THE EUGENIC COLLEGE OF KANTSAYWHERE...accordance with his request. by SIR FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S. Critical Edition...Galton, Nature 1878. (66) SIR FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S. University College...
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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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...Donoghues of Dunno Weir (1901) By Francis Galton Galton Papers 138/5, University...value had to be paid for land." Sir Richard Farrants speech. (10) pencil...middle class, genius, illegible Sir Woodbine illegible about Paraguay...
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The Place of Eugenics in Arnold Gesell's Maturation Theory of Child Development

Journal article by Frank J. Marchese; Canadian Psychology, Vol. 36, 1995

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Anthropology, Child development, Eugenics, Galton, Francis, Gesell, Arnold, History, Human evolution, Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...the biostatistician, first Galton Professor of Eugenics at the University...spirit of the movement outlined by Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the...He presented his results to the Galton Society in 1929 (Weizmann, 1988...
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Future Human Evolution

Journal article by John Glad; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2003

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Biological diversity, Demographics, Evolution, Galton, Francis (1822-1911), Genetic engineering, Hominids, Human Genome Project

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...selection with scientific selection. In the words of Sir Francis Galton, the "father" of eugenics and statistics, What nature...discoveries were ignored for the rest of the century, and Galton never learned of them. Even the discovery of the mechanism...

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Testing Prayer

Magazine article by E. J. Behrman; Skeptic, Vol. 11, 2005

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Galton, Francis (1822-1911), Life expectancy, Prayer, Royalty, Scientists

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...like to point out that Sir Francis Gallon devised an almost...experiment in 1872.1 Galton used Guys data2 on the...the Army, and Artists. Galton pointed out that the health...shows no differences. Galton noted another difficulty...
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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

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

Collections: History, Entire Library

...England to take Sir Thomas Gates, the...Darwins cousin, Sir Francis Galton, picked up the...younger cousin, Sir Francis Galton...In fairness to Galton, his method reveals...the first from Francis Galton, the hereditarian...
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The Evolution of Genocide

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

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...synthesis," effort was Sir Julian Huxley, whose...Darwin, his cousin Sir Francis Galton, Darwins son Major Leonard...grandson, Sir Charles Galton Darwin27 all carried the...rather his cousin, Sir Francis Galton, who invented...
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Social Darwinism Revisited

Magazine article by Leslie Jones; History Today, Vol. 48, August 1998

Subjects:

Eugenics--History, Social Darwinism--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Darwinism revisited. by Leslie Jones Sir Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, was...foreigners of calibre, while slavery (Galton implied) protected the racial...qualities of his own species. For Galton feared that his own fine country...
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The Mad-genius Controversy

Magazine article by Thomas Szasz; Freeman, Vol. 55, December 2005

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Genetic engineering, Heredity, Intelligence, Psychiatry

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...hereditary excellence was shaped largely by Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), the father of eugenics. Galton was born into a wealthy and distinguished...mental attributes, like talent and virtue, Galton lamented: "If a twentieth part of 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

...his young scientist-cousin, Sir Francis Galton. And here the story goes murky. Faulds never received a reply from Galton - but Galton pushed the idea...the planet Uranus. Herschel and Francis Galton were wealthy and well...
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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

Subjects:

Continents

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...1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin...the inferior Negro race, wrote Galton. I should expect that the African...even been discovered. Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead...
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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

Subjects:

Continents

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...1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin...the inferior Negro race, wrote Galton. I should expect that the African...even been discovered. Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead...
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Two Scientists, Different Times

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 16, 2005

Subjects:

Cassidy, David C., Oppenheimer, J. Robert

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...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a one-man...former biological researcher at the Galton Laboratory of University College...Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton, Bloomsbury, $24.95...
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A Nation of Innovation

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 12, 2008

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...discovery of insulin and Sir JohnCroften discovered...with Listerine? Biologist Sir Alexander Fleming(1881...penicillin. Nobel prizewinner Sir Joseph Black developed...Faulds discovery to Sir Francis Galton.A too-trusting Dr Faulds...

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Galton, Sir Francis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

GALTON, SIR FRANCIS gol t n, 1822 1911, English scientist...eugenics (a term that he coined). Galton devised the correlation coefficient and...talent is an inherited characteristic. Galton established a system of classifying fingerprints...
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Fingerprint

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...William James Herschel, and Sir Francis Galton in the late 19th cent. Fingerprints...identification than visual recognition. The Galton method, elaborated by E. R...Vucetich in Argentina, also using Galton as a guide, developed (1904...
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Eugenics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...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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