Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)

Name: Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)
Author: Francis Galton

by Francis Galton, Edgar Schuster

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Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2005-11-21

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Eugenics

About the authors

Francis Galton

1822–1911

A restless Victorian thinker, he ranged from African exploration to weather maps, fingerprints, and the statistics that helped shape modern social science. His work was highly influential and often troubling, especially in the way it fed into the early eugenics movement.

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Edgar Schuster

Known for warm, practical books on writing and literacy, this educator has helped teachers think about how classrooms can become places where students read, write, and learn with purpose.

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