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Francis Galton.
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
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About Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton was an English polymath active as a statistician, anthropologist, psychologist, meteorologist, explorer, and geographer who was the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era, contributing extensively to the foundations of behavioural genetics.
Everything about Francis Galton →- Occupation
- mathematician, explorer, anthropologist, geneticist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 16, 1822, 1822
- Died
- January 17, 1911, 1911
- Website
- http://galton.org