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A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics Gillham, Nicholas Wright (James B. Duke Professor of Biology, James B. Duke Professor of Biology, Duke University)
A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics
Gillham, Nicholas Wright (James B. Duke Professor of Biology, James B. Duke Professor of Biology, Duke University)
A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was an African explorer, the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, a statistician, and the founder of the eugenics movement. This text is a portrait of this Victorian polymath.
432 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 3, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195143652 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 432 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 241 × 31 mm · 844 g |
| Language | English |