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...s play, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest ''The Tempest: 4.1'']). Galton was influenced by the book [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_

...nce they meant a heritable trait, which was a general intelligence factor. Galton is regarded as the founder of psychometrics (among other kinds of metrics, Galton's theories were elaborated from the work of two early 19th-century pioneers

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir [[Francis Galton]] in 1883. Eugenics became an academic discipline at many colleges and uni ...l'') and the suffix ''-genēs'' (''born''), and was coined by [[Sir Francis Galton]] in 1883.

...rceived as more attractive. This was first noticed in 1883, when [[Francis Galton]], cousin of [[Charles Darwin]], overlaid photographic composite images of

...merous studies, with contradictory results.[https://www.abelard.org/galton/galton.htm]. Though there has been criticism of the way the studies were conducted ...etermine whether prayer had a physical effect on the external environment. Galton hypothesized that if prayer was effective, members of the British Royal fam

...Stanton 1960). For example, using [[anthropometrics]], invented by Francis Galton and [[Alphonse Bertillon]], they measured the shapes and sizes of skulls an

...lication of the structure of DNA by [[James D. Watson|James Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]] in 1953, demonstrated the physical basis for inheritance. Since the ...rimination and [[race|racism]]. For example, the [[eugenics]] of [[Francis Galton]] were developed to argue that the human gene pool should be improved by se

...operation among people (Charles Fourier, 1808), later in eugenics (Francis Galton, 1869). While the foundations of the faith in the future perfectibility of