A Life of Sir Francis Galton by Nicholas Wright Gillham
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.
A splendidly readable and informative guide to Galton's life, works and impact.. the accounts of Galton's investigations of heredity and their reception make the book so useful and so absorbing ... succeeds remarkably well at communicating the shape and content of Galton's work on the physiology and populational dynamics of inheritance ... it will be the biography for a long time to come. * Heredity *
Nicholas Gillham is James B. Duke Professor of Biology Emeritus at Duke University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195143652 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195143655 |
| Title | A Life of Sir Francis Galton |
| Author | Nicholas Wright Gillham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2002-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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