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Essays In Eugenics (Paperback)

by Francis Galton (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: 109 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (October 31, 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.com Sales Rank: #1,159,276 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)


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5.0 out of 5 stars The Epoch Breaking Writings of an Historic Pioneer, February 21, 2005
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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The mother of ecology, January 1, 2008
By Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.) - See all my reviews
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.
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