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Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 to January 17, 1911) was an English polymath who founded the [[Eugenics|eugenics]] movement, coining the word "eugenics" in 1883, and who in the course of arguing that human ability is inherited created much of modern statistics, including the concepts of correlation and regression. He was the half-cousin of Charles Darwin, sharing the grandfather Erasmus Darwin, and read Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* (1859) as a license to extend natural selection to the deliberate breeding of human beings. He pioneered fingerprint identification, composite photography, and anthropometric testing, founded the field of biometrics, introduced the phrase "nature versus nurture," and on his death left his estate to the University of London to endow a professorship of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909.[^1][^2]
Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 to January 17, 1911) was an English polymath who founded the [[Eugenics|eugenics]] movement, coining the word "eugenics" in 1883, and who in the course of arguing that human ability is inherited created much of modern statistics, including the concepts of correlation and regression. He was the half-cousin of Charles Darwin, sharing the grandfather Erasmus Darwin, and read Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* (1859) as a license to extend natural selection to the deliberate breeding of human beings. He pioneered fingerprint identification, composite photography, and anthropometric testing, founded the field of biometrics, introduced the phrase "nature versus nurture," and on his death left his estate to the [[University of London]] to endow a professorship of eugenics. He was knighted in 1909.[^1][^2]
### Hereditary Genius and the Hereditarian Program