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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Paperback - 2017

by Francis Galton


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Galton invented the term eugenics and set down many of his observations and conclusions in this book which covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. It discusses the variety of human nature, physical features, bodily qualities, emotions, psychology, anthropometric registers, character, criminals, gregarious and slavish instincts, intellectual differences, mental imagery, number forms, the history of twins, and selection and race, among others. He also advocated a system of rewards for high quality families to have more children to encourage the better element of society to grow in size. Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, pyschometrician, statistician and founder of the science of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909. This edition is an exact copy of the original and contains all the original illustrations.

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  • Title Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
  • Author Francis Galton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Blurb
  • Date 2017-04
  • ISBN 9781366569417 / 1366569415
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 150
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