Meaning Galton
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GaltonEnglish advocate of eugenics, the idea of improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selective parenthood. Galton coined the word "eugenics" to denote scientific endeavors to increase the proportion of persons with better than average genetic endowment through selective mating of marriage partners. In his book " [..]
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Galton(n) English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints f [..]
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Galton(b. 1822). “The Telotype” (1850); “The Art of Travel” (1855); “Vacation Tourists” (1861); “Meteorographica” (1863); “He [..]
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Galtonan English scientist that developed a system for classifying and identifying fingerprints that is still used today.
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