Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
$85.50 USD • Used
A nice tight copy. About the book: Galton invented the term eugenics and set down many of his observations and conclusions in this book which covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their ...
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A nice tight copy. About the book: Galton invented the term eugenics and set down many of his observations and conclusions in this book which covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. It discusses the variety of human nature, physical features, bodily qualities, emotions, psychology, anthropometric registers, character, criminals, gregarious and slavish instincts, intellectual differences, mental imagery, number forms, the history of twins, and selection and race, among others. He also advocated a system of rewards for high quality families to have more children to encourage the better element of society to grow in size. Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, pyschometrician, statistician and founder of the science of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909. This reprint edition is an exact copy of the original and contains all the original illustrations.
Product Info
ISBN: 1366569415
ISBN-13: 9781366569417
Publisher: Ostara
Year: 2012
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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