NATURAL INHERITANCE
by FRANCIS GALTON
London; 1889
Size 6 by 9"
Original cloth
Very good interior condition, some wear of binding
Ex-library
Text in English
1888 library label applied to the cover (easily removable with water)
=====================================================================by FRANCIS GALTON
London; 1889
Size 6 by 9"
Original cloth
Very good interior condition, some wear of binding
Ex-library
Text in English
1888 library label applied to the cover (easily removable with water)
1889. Francis Galton publishes his book Natural Inheritance. The book is considered "the foundation stone of modern biometrics"
It attempted to identify personal attributes that were "vital statistics" of an individual human being
Natural Inheritance, although written for general audiences, was Galton's most technical book, and used statistics to try and quantify the contribution of ancestors to their offspring .
It concluded that characteristics of any population may remain statistically identical in successive generation, assuming the population remains at "harmony" with its environment .
Galton also concluded that:
"If one of the couples consist of two gifted members of a poor stock, and the other of two ordinary members of a gifted stock, the difference between them will betray itself in their offspring. The children of the former will tend to regress ; those of the latter will not."
Galton used fifteen years of research conducted at Galton's Anthropometric Laboratory to write Natural Inheritance .
He examined features such as stature, eye colour, "artistic faculty", and disease
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