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	Francis Galton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. February 16, 1822– January 17, 1911) was a Victorian polymath, British anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
		Galton was the first to describe and explain the common phenomenon of regression toward the mean, which he first observed in his experiments on the size of the seeds of successive generations of sweet peas.
		Galton wrote about the technique (inadvertently sparking a controversy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917), identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Galton (1970 words)

	SIR FRANCIS GALTON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR FRANCIS GALTON
		Galton was the author of memoirs on various anthropometric subjects; he originated the process of composite portraiture, and paid much attention to finger-prints and their employment for the identification of criminals, his publications on this subject including Finger Prints (1892), Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints (1893) and Finger Print Directories (1895).
		Galton was a member of the meteorological committee (1868), and of the Meteorological Council which succeeded it, for over thirty years.
		From the Royal Society, of which he was elected a fellow in 1860, he received a royal medal in 1886 and the Darwin medal in 1902, and honorary degrees were bestowed on him by Oxford (1894) and Cambridge (1895).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GALTON_SIR_FRANCIS.htm (484 words)

	Sir Francis Galton within Psychology at RIN.ru
		Francis Galton was born at the Larches near Sparbrook, Birmingham on February 16, 1822 and died in 1911.
		Galton's interest in mathematics and techniques of measurement led him to concentrate within the field of geography on mapping and meteorological observations, and it was here that he made his first contribution to science.
		Galton placed great emphasis on statistical measurements of these hereditary predispositions as a way of predicting and improving the population, and was the founder of a new movement in science called Eugenics.
	psy.rin.ru /eng/article/177-101.html (618 words)

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		Francis Galton, 1822-1911, was raised in a high-class intellectual environment near Birmingham, England.
		Galton supported a younger colleague, Karl Pearson, in the development of statistical methods for the study of individual differenc es.
		Galton was heavily influenced by Darwin and became interested in the heritability of human traits.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~sungurea/introstat/history/w98/galton.html (844 words)

	Galton
		Galton was the cousin of Charles Darwin, so perhaps it was natural that he should be one of the first to be converted by the book.
		Galton may be described as the founder of the study of eugenics.
		Galton's father, Samuel Tertius Galton, was a banker from a family which contained many rich bankers and gunsmiths.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Galton.html (2076 words)

	Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)
		Galton was also a pioneer in the development of regression analysis -- a statistical technique forming the basis of prediction in widely ranging fields, such as economics and human resource management.
		Apart from his significant (and extensive) contributions to science in general, and psychology in particular, one may blame Galton for the fact that we have access to weather reports.
		A hundred years on, some investigators (e.g., Roberts, Pallier, and Goff, 1999) have demonstrated that Galton was on the right track relative to his investigation of sensory processes.
	www.psych.usyd.edu.au /difference5/scholars/galton.html (337 words)

	Sir Francis Galton
		Sir Francis Galton was a man of diverse interests and achievements which range from African exploration to human heredity and eugenics.
		But Galton was ultimately interested in the inheritance of what he called "talent and character" in human populations.
		He immediately recognized "the far-reaching application of that extraordinarily beautiful law which I fully apprehended." Galton familiarized himself with the work of Adolph Quetelet, the Astronomer Royal of Belgium, who was actually the first person to apply the normal distribution to social statistics.
	www.academicpress.com /refer/measure/Outlines/galton.htm (353 words)

	Sir Francis Galton
		The science of eugenics was invented by Sir Francis Galton, an amateur British scientist.
		Galton was the cousin of Charles Darwin and the son of a wealthy, influential family.
		Galton concluded that it was possible to produce "a highly gifted race of men" by the process of selective breeding, which he later termed "positive" eugenics.
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring02/Holland/Galton.htm (162 words)

	Science Show - 25/11/00: Sir Francis Galton
		Francis Galton: I suspect that those of you assembled here would not relish the prospect of attending for any length of time to the rather unremarkable gentleman now before you should he fail to sustain his imitation of myself, since he would then undoubtedly be reduced to immobility and silence.
		Francis Galton: You see, concealed in the shaft of this walking stick is what has now become known as a Galton’s whistle, currently calibrated at 12,339 cycles per second, a frequency inaudible to humans but particularly attractive to dogs.
		So Galton thought it would be a good idea to experiment on rabbits and he did, and for two years solidly he did blood transfusions between different breeds of rabbits, Lop Eared and Grey rabbits.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s216074.htm (1458 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Francis Galton
		Galton, Sir Francis (1822-1911), British scientist, best known for his work in anthropology and heredity and considered the founder of the science...
		Sir Frances Galton, a British scientist, was among the...
		Interest in measuring individual differences in mental ability began in the late 19th century.
	encarta.msn.com /Francis_Galton.html (99 words)

	Sir Francis Galton
		On February 16,1822 Sir Francis Galton was born, and some years later in 1909 he died.
		We have forgotten about Sir Francis Galton and the impact of his invention in the lives of police officer and the criminal justice system.
		She was Galton's first educator, and strongly believed he was some sort of child prodigy.
	www.vcsc.k12.in.us /th/hagen/invent/galton.htm (608 words)

	To Catch a Thief: The Psychology of Fingerprints
		Galton took the task very seriously and imparted on a series of empirical studies that allowed him to document not only that no two people have the same fingerprints but also that a person's fingerprints remain largely unchanged over the course of his or her life.
		Galton took physical measurements of people all over the world, measured the heights of hundreds of British schoolchildren (and their parents), recorded and analyzed weather patterns, and conducted the first systematic studies of the shared traits of identical twins.
		Before the ink on Galton's book had dried, law enforcement experts began to realize that Galton's discoveries made it possible to use fingerprints as a highly reliable way to identify people (including people who did not wish to be identified).
	www.psychologymatters.org /galton.html (506 words)

	Rocky Road: Francis Galton
		Galton's vision may seem chilling, but it's important to remember that he would have been sickened by the forced sterilizations and mass exterminations later carried out in the name of improving society.
		On the other hand, when Galton later heard of a violent dispute between European travelers and a neighboring African tribe, he sympathized with the Africans, thinking the Europeans should have remembered they were guests in someone else's country.
		Among Galton's many contributions to science were pioneering the use of fingerprinting and discovering the anticyclone.
	www.strangescience.net /galton.htm (605 words)

	Francis Galton, Sir Biography / Biography of Francis Galton, Sir Main Biography
		The English scientist, biometrician, and explorer Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) founded the science of eugenics and introduced the theory of the anticyclone in meteorology.
		Francis Galton was born on Feb. 16, 1822, at Birmingham, the son of Samuel Galton, a businessman, and Violetta Galton.
		The death of Galton's father in 1844 left him with considerable independent means, and he abandoned further medical study to travel in Syria, Egypt, and South-West Africa.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-francis-galton-sir (245 words)

	Francis Galton : Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer, written in 1872
		Galton’s system served as the basis for the fingerprint classification systems developed by Sir Edward R. Henry, who later became chief commissioner of the London metropolitan police, and by Juan Vucetich of Argentina.
		Galton was the originator of much of the study of meteorology: he discovered and introduced the term anti-cyclone; he laid the beginnings of the study of genetics and laid the ground for fingerprinting.
		Galton founded ideas of human eugenics on much research into the heritability of intelligence and personality, matters that continue to be controversial.
	www.abelard.org /galton/galton.htm (6110 words)

	Sir Francis Galton F.R.S.
		Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.
		Galton launched his scientific career with an expedition to tropical Africa and subsequent election to the Royal Geographical Society.
		Galton wrote and campaigned extensively about improvement of the human stock, which he called 'eugenics'.
	www.mugu.com /galton/start.html (498 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Galton, Sir Francis (1822-1911)
		Born in Birmingham, England, Francis Galton was descended from founders of the Quaker religion.
		Eventually, Galton modified his original theories to recognize the effects of education and other environmental factors on mental ability, although he continued to regard heredity as the preeminent influence.
		Galton carried out further research to distinguish between the effects of heredity and those of environment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000146 (629 words)

	Sir Francis Galton: 'The Comparative Worth of Different Races'
		Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) has been semi-jocularly referred to as "Charles Darwin's smarter cousin" as a result of his numerous investigations into human faculties and the resulting prolific writings on every subject from travel to the races of man to the mathematics of population statistics to eugenics.
		by Sir Francis Galton, F.R.S. Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.
		Sir Francis Galton: 'The Comparative Worth of Different Races'
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=4056 (737 words)

	Galton, Sir Francis definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Galton, Sir Francis: English advocate of eugenics, the idea of improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selective parenthood.
		Born in 1822, Galton was knighted in 1909 and died in 1911.
		Galton coined the word "eugenics" to denote scientific endeavors to increase the proportion of persons with better than average genetic endowment through selective mating of marriage partners.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=18057 (245 words)

	Francis Galton
		An explorer and anthropologist, Francis Galton is known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence.
		D W Forrest, Francis Galton : the life and work of a Victorian Genius (London, 1974).
		K Pearson, The Life, Letters, and Labours of Francis Galton (London, 1914-30).
	www.shsu.edu /~icc_cmf/bio/galton.html (364 words)

	National Review: Good Breeding.('A Life of Sir Francis Galton: F... @ HighBeam Research
		Galton's case for eugenics was implicit in his mid-career writing on heritability, and was explicit even in parts of his initial Macmillan's article.
		(Galton called it "the law of filial regression to mediocrity," which was not exactly right, since the phenomenon results in regression for parents as well as children.) He had an extraordinary intuitive grasp of what was possible with statistics, even where others eventually had to bring more rigor to the methods.
		Galton's main point throughout was that human mental ability and personality traits, no less than the plant and animal traits described by Darwin, were essentially inherited.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:81775384&... (1461 words)

	Sir Francis Galton -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Charles Darwin's studies of the survival capabilities of different species and Sir Francis Galton's researches on individual visual and auditory skills, as well as more recent experiments, have shown that both individual and group differences are quantitative rather than qualitative.
		Sir Francis Galton, detail of an oil painting by G. Graef, 1882; in the National Portrait Gallery, …
		Galton studied the families of outstanding men of his day and concluded, like his cousin Charles Darwin, that mental powers run in families.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035934?tocId=9035934&query=Galton&ct= (720 words)

	GALTON
		Sir Francis Galton (1865, 1869), Darwin's cousin, immediately recognized the implications for human variation.
		Galton carried out surveys and found that good and bad temperament, as well as intelligence, ran in families.
		Anticipating later work on transracial adoption, Galton pointed out that the majority of individuals adhered to their racial type, even if they were raised by white settlers.
	www.charlesdarwinresearch.org /galton.html (276 words)

	Glayde Whitney - Galton Conference
		Sir Francis Galton spoke of ways to test and bring together promising young men and women so that they would be more likely to form eugenic matches.
		This propaganda assault has been so influential that all of the institutions and academic departments that were founded by Sir Francis Galton and Karl Pearson to advance the study and application of eugenics, have changed their name to eliminate the term.
		It is interesting, and overlooked by many, that Galton's own definition included both nature and nurture approaches to the improvement of humanity.
	www.eugenics.net /papers/gw002.html (4159 words)

	Steve Sailer: Thatcher Speech on the Genetic Revolution: from Marx to Darwin to Galton
		Galton was Darwin’s smarter cousin, a scientific polymath and inventor who has as much claim as anybody to be the father of statistics, differential psychology, fingerprinting, and the weather map.
		Galton’s synthesis of the classic “nurture vs. nature” debate between Marx and Darwin was that we could nurture a new nature for ourselves.
		Galton’s big invention was the concept of the artificial selection of humans, or “eugenics.” Eugenics has a terrible reputation, of course, much of it well deserved.
	www.isteve.com /Thatcher-Speech-Text.htm (2081 words)

	European Traces of the History of Psychology: Galton
		Sir Francis Galton, F. Born 16th February 1822
		Galton is buried in a family plot in the yard of St. Michel's and All Angels' Church in the lovely village of Claverdon, not far from his place of birth (which no longer stands).
		His memorial plaque is to be found in the 13th C. Norman church, toward the front of the nave on the right-hand wall.
	home1.gte.net /donrae19/galton.html (312 words)

	Sir Francis Galton
		Galton realised that reputation, however, was an unsatisfactory foundation on which to base scientific inferences about hereditary traits and so he attemped, with considerable success, to use measurements.
		He found it possible to determine quantitatively the degree of likeness between relatives by means of the method of correlation.
		Remarkable instances were assembled of several closely related men attaining great eminence, for e.g the Bach family of musicians..
	www.gene.ucl.ac.uk /galton.html (236 words)

	Art and Medicine Bibliography, Galton
		Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics.
		In his important Inquiries, he showed mathematically "the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of abstract thought, of the associations between the elements of different sense departments, of the correlation of mental traits, the associations of words, and the times taken in making the associations" (T. Penniman).
	www.artandmedicine.com /biblio/authors/Galton.html (74 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press Books Francis Galton
		Bulmer describes Galton's early ambitions and experiments—his investigations of problems of evolutionary importance (such as the evolution of gregariousness and the function of sex), and his movement from the development of a physiological theory to a purely statistical theory of heredity, based on the properties of the normal distribution.
		Though Michael Bulmer introduces readers to the curious facts of Galton's life—as an explorer, as a polymath and member of the Victorian intellectual aristocracy, and as a proponent of eugenics—his chief concern is with Galton's pioneering studies of heredity, in the course of which he invented the statistical tools of regression and correlation.
		Bulmer gives the first full account of Galton's theory of ancestral heredity which so influenced Pearson, and shows how, with his experiments on the inheritance of seed-weight in the sweet pea, Galton did for the inheritance of continuous characters what Gregor Mendel (unknown to Galton and his generation) had done for discrete characters.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/1617.html (620 words)

	Francis Galton
		An English scientist, explorer and anthropologist, Francis Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin and was one of the first to recognize how Darwin's theory of evolution was going to clash with theology.
		They deal with many diverse subjects, including the use of fingerprints for personal identification, the correlation of calculus (a branch of applied statistics) - in both of which Galton was a pioneer - twins, blood transfusions, the art of travel in undeveloped countries, criminality and meteorology.
		Galton as a youth developed a passion for travel.
	www.sociologyprofessor.com /socialtheorists/francisgalton.php (274 words)

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