Essays in Eugenics [Paperback]

Sir Francis Galton (Author)

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Publication Date: October 8, 2004

CONTENTS: The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims Restrictions in Marriage Studies in National Eugenics Eugenics as a Factor in Religion Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics Local Associations for Promoting Eugenics Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a 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.

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Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a 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.

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• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (October 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1410216985
• ISBN-13: 978-1410216984
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Epoch Breaking Writings of an Historic Pioneer, February 21, 2005

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This review is from: Essays in Eugenics (Paperback)

Reprint of the original epoch-breaking 1909 publication by one of the greatest scholars of modern times. Sir Francis Galton was not only a pioneer of climatology, demography, and statistics, but also the founder of modern eugenic thought.
These essays summarize his conclusions as to the importance of heredity and the need for eugenic measures to counteract the dysgenic influences, which were already in his time beginning to affect the more advanced nations of the world.

7 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The mother of ecology, January 1, 2008

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Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essays in Eugenics (Paperback)

I tried to read this garbage, here in Brazil.I found this garbage on internet.This garbage is biased, false, absurd and bigoted.Ironically, the author never had a son.He was sterile, as so many other eugenicists.
Today, we are worried about the menace to the nature.While this garbage was beeing published, there was a menace to race.
This book has many pages about inteligence, but what was or is inteligence?
Today eugenics is called ecology.
This garbage has just some uses:
1-To see how a pseudo-science is preached.The same tecnicks are used today for ecologists.
2-To see stooge can be an intellectual.
3-To hee that mankind is ever, looking for to believe in absurds.Witch-hunting, eugenics, ecology are manias at their times.