Born on February 16, 1822, in Birmingham, England, Francis Galton was the youngest of nine children of Samuel Tertius, a banker, and Frances Anne Violetta Galton. At the age of 16, Galton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, to study medicine and...

Francis Galton was born near Birmingham, England, in 1822. His impressive talents appeared early. At the age of three, he was already reading, and at four, he was studying Latin. His I.Q. at adulthood was estimated at 200. But as a young man of 22, a...

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...

Francis Galton (1822–1911), the scientist who created and promoted eugenics, the notion that a fitter human race might be created through selective breeding, was born near Birmingham, England, on February 16, and died in Haslemere, Surrey,...

1822-1911 English Biologist and Statistician Francis Galton has been called the last of the gentleman scientists—men who dabbled in science as a hobby rather than a profession. Galton was brilliant and, with hundreds of publications to his name,...

1822-1911 British gentleman scientist and cousin of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) who studied meteorology and anthropology, but is best known for founding the eugenics movement. Eugenics, a term coined by Galton, refers to the attempt to improve human...

Francis Galton (1822-1910) first coined the term eugenics in 1883. It stems from the Greek word eugenes, meaning good in birth. Though Galton defined the term eugenics rather broadly, he essentially intended the term to mean the science of improving...

Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist,...

THE LAW OF HALF-INTENDED EFFECTS deserves to be more widely known. It usefully describes what happens to men who act intentionally, and who know more-or-less what they intend, but are shocked when things suddenly get out of control. If only he had lived...

The first two regression lines, and the first correlations, were calculated by Francis Galton, in his work on heredity in sweet peas and in humans. When "regressing" the heights of adult children on those of their parents, Galton had to deal with the fact...

Boys at the top of the pecking order _ either by birth or because their older siblings died _ score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers.The question of whether firstborn and only children are really smarter than those who come along later has...

Boys at the top of the pecking order _ either by birth or because their older siblings died _ score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers.The question of whether firstborn and only children are really smarter than those who come along later has...