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Cousins: Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton and the birth of eugenics
Author(s) -
Gillham Nicholas W.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00379.x
Subject(s) - galton's problem , eugenics , statistician , darwin (adl) , genealogy , darwinism , race (biology) , heredity , cousin , philosophy , sociology , history , biology , epistemology , genetics , mathematics , statistics , computer science , software engineering , archaeology , gender studies
Sir Francis Galton, scientist, African Explorer and statistician, was a key figure in statistical history. He was the man who devised the statistical concepts of regression and correlation. He was also Charles Darwin's cousin. And, inspired by his reading of Darwin, he was the founder of eugenics: the “science” of improving the human race through selective breeding. Nicholas Gillham tells of a darker side to statistics and heredity.