biography
| name: |
Galton, Sir Francis
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pronunciation:
[gawltn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–1911)
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| biography:
| Scientist and explorer, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Birmingham, London, and Cambridge, but left the study of medicine to travel in N and S Africa. He is best known for his studies of heredity and intelligence, such as Hereditary Genius (1869), which led to the field he called eugenics. Several of his ideas are referred to in the work of his cousin, Charles Darwin. Galton was knighted in 1909. |
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