A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics PHI018000 and possibly learning incorrect information

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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics PHI018000 and possibly learning incorrect informationFew scientists have made lasting contributions to as many fields as Francis Galton. He was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, the inventor of regression and correlation analysis in statistics, and the founder of the eugenics movement. Now, Nicholas Gillham paints an engaging portrait of this Victorian polymath.