The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
Author: Karl Pearson
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 586
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1108072402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published between 1914 and 1930, this biography offers a fascinating insight into the life of the eugenicist Francis Galton.
Author: Karl Pearson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 556
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Published: 1901
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Published: 1930
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Keith Breckenridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107077842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.
Author: Karl Pearson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-25
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780331892321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, Vol. 3: Correlation, Personal Identification and Eugenics Margaret V. Pearson, I am indebted for the heavy task of aiding in selecting and Of afterwards transcribing the numerous letters and papers, which has very greatly lightened my own labours. I cannot conclude without a word of thanks for the care which my printers, the Cambridge University Press, have devoted to the preparation of this work and the endeavours they have always made to meet the very varied requirements of its illustration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Michael Bulmer
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0801881404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf not for the work of his half cousin Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory might have met a somewhat different fate. In particular, with no direct evidence of natural selection and no convincing theory of heredity to explain it, Darwin needed a mathematical explanation of variability and heredity. Galton's work in biometry—the application of statistical methods to the biological sciences—laid the foundations for precisely that. This book offers readers a compelling portrait of Galton as the "father of biometry," tracing the development of his ideas and his accomplishments, and placing them in their scientific context. Though Michael Bulmer introduces readers to the curious facts of Galton's life—as an explorer, as a polymath and member of the Victorian intellectual aristocracy, and as a proponent of eugenics—his chief concern is with Galton's pioneering studies of heredity, in the course of which he invented the statistical tools of regression and correlation. Bulmer describes Galton's early ambitions and experiments—his investigations of problems of evolutionary importance (such as the evolution of gregariousness and the function of sex), and his movement from the development of a physiological theory to a purely statistical theory of heredity, based on the properties of the normal distribution. This work, culminating in the law of ancestral heredity, also put Galton at the heart of the bitter conflict between the "ancestrians" and the "Mendelians" after the rediscovery of Mendelism in 1900. A graceful writer and an expert biometrician, Bulmer details the eventual triumph of biometrical methods in the history of quantitative genetics based on Mendelian principles, which underpins our understanding of evolution today.