Hereditary Genius
Author | : Sir Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Genius |
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Author | : Sir Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Genius |
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Author | : Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Genius |
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Author | : Sir Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
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Galton founded the science of Eugenics and coined the word in 1883. He investigated the families of great men and thought genius was hereditary.
Author | : Francis Galton |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : Darold A. Treffert |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-10-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1849058733 |
In this fascinating book, Dr. Treffert looks at what we know about savant syndrome, and at new discoveries that raise interesting questions about the hidden brain potential within us all. He looks both at how savant skills can be nurtured, and how they can help the person who has them, particularly if that person is on the autism spectrum.
Author | : Francise Galton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2013-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781491220313 |
As the author later said, this book's title should have been "Hereditary Ability." This pioneering work in the study of hereditary and human ability laid the groundwork for the science of eugenics, inheritance and intelligence studies. Galton's methodology consisted of making a list of eminent people and their extended relations to determine how many prominent relatives they had. If genius was hereditary, Galton reasoned, there should be more eminent people among the relatives than among the general population. He also proposed a number of methods to separate the effects of heredity and environment, which included adoption studies and trans-racial adoption studies. The conclusion to which all the data propelled Galton was that intelligence was clearly hereditary. A groundbreaking work, now despised, but as valid as the day it was written.
Author | : Sean B. Carroll |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307952347 |
The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition.
Author | : Milo Keynes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993-07-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1349122068 |
'...this is a splendid, first-class book, the definitive book on Francis Galton and his legacy. The editing has been superb...The timing of its publication is excellent in relation to the increasing interest in human genetics in all areas of the biological and behavioural sciences'.R.Plomin, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Development and Health Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a grandson of Erasmus Darwin, was one of the most versatile men of his time. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer. He worked at the prediction of weather, and described his discovery of the anticyclone He first became an anthropologist in 1862 when he joined the Ethnological Society. He initiated anthropometry and the measurement of human variation, and the use of photography for the analysis of differencies, or individual characteristics, in a group. He recognised the uniqueness of Finger Prints, and, in 1875, first used the records of pairs of identical twins in his researches into the laws of heredity. Besides contributions to human genetics, Galton devised the correlation coefficient, and was thus concerned with the advancement of statistics. In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant 'good in birth' and 'noble in heredity', and, in 1904, he founded the Galton Laboratory at University College, London. He was first President of the Eugenics Education Society in 1907.
Author | : Francis Galton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2023-11-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385230624 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.