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Sir Francis Galton, FRS: The Legacy of His Ideas: Studies in Biology, Economy and Society

Editat de Milo Keynes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 1993
'...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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333546956
ISBN-10: 0333546954
Pagini: 237
Ilustrații: X, 237 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1993
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Studies in Biology, Economy and Society

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Notes on the Contributors - Introductory Note - Sir Francis Galton: a Man with a Universal Scientific Curiosity; M.Keynes - The Historical Galton; W.F.Bynum - Francis Galton: Travel and Geography; D.Middleton - Meterographica and Weather; Sir C.Tickell - Intelligence and Hereditary Genius; H.J.Eysenck - The Galton Lecture for 1991: Francis Galton: Numeracy and Innumeracy in Genetics; J.H.Edwards - Galton, Karl Pearson and Modern Statistical Theory; A.W.F.Edwards - Appendix: Heredity and Environment; L.Darwin - Galton on Human Growth and Form; J.M.Tanner - Galton and the Use of Twin Studies; C.G.N.Mascie-Taylor - Galton and the Study of Fingerprints; G.Hauser - Galton and Evolutionary Theory; J.Maynard Smith - Galton's Conception of Race in Historical Perspective; M.Banton - Galton, the Educationist; W.H.G.Armytage - The Galton Laboratory, University College London; J.S.Jones - Three Chapters from Sir Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty - Sir Francis Galton, FRS: Bibliography- List of Presidents of Eugenics Education Society 1908-1926, Eugenics Society 1926-1989, Galton Institute 1989- - Index