In any case, aphantasia is not generally thought to be an obstacle in day-to-day life. One of the only abilities that affects ...

THE LIFE STORY OF A SCIENTIST; Francis Galton the Anthropometrist Writes Some Highly Interesting Memories of a Long and Honorable Career. Share full article Oct. 16, 1909 ...

Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences.

How 19th Century Englishman's theory led to murder of MILLIONS: Francis Galton's eugenics proved popular with Churchill… before his genetic improvement ideas led to the WWII Holocaust and 70,000 ...

A modern twist on a classic concept. A Galton board, named after British mathematician Sir Francis Galton, is a device that demonstrates statistical principles using a triangular array of pegs.

The first systematic studies of whether human behaviors are hereditary were conducted over 100 years ago by Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin.

Francis Galton: You see, concealed in the shaft of this walking stick is what has now become known as a Galton's whistle, currently calibrated at 12,339 cycles per second, ...

The scientifically and morally bankrupt theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding evolved in 1883 when Francis Galton advocated that society should promote the marriage and ...

A LIFE OF SIR FRANCIS GALTON: From African Explorer to the Birth of Eugenics Nicholas Wright Gillham, . . Oxford Univ., $30 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-19-514365-2 ...

In 1876, an English scientist named Francis Galton introduced a whistle for testing the upper limits of audible sound in different persons. Max Thomas Edelmann, a physicist and instrument maker in ...

FEBRUARY 16, 1822—JANUARY 17, 1911. THE death of Francis Galton marks, not only the removal of another link with the leaders of the great scientific movement of the nineteenth century ...