Cousins: Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton and the birth of eugenics |
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| Authors: | Nicholas W Gillham |
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| Institution: | James B. Duke Professor of Biology Emeritus, Duke University. In 2001 he published A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics;, Oxford University Press. |
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| Abstract: | Sir Francis Galton, scientist, African Explorer and statistician, was a key figure in statistical history. He was the man who devised the statistical concepts of regression and correlation. He was also Charles Darwin's cousin. And, inspired by his reading of Darwin, he was the founder of eugenics: the "science" of improving the human race through selective breeding. Nicholas Gillham tells of a darker side to statistics and heredity. |
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