Saturday, September 21: James is joined by author, comedian and Professor T star Ben Miller, while there are also recipes for Moroccan chicken, Swiss rolls, and mussels alongside dishes from chefs ...

Most people believe geniuses exist, but we prefer to keep the concept at arm’s length. Calling someone in our social circle a genius – especially if they claim to be one – feels laughably excessive.

But how did they evolve to hear better than humans?Well, let’s start with a little lesson in comparative anatomy. Humans can hear sounds ranging between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (20 kHz). That’s not bad if ...

AMONG all his anthropological brethren Mr. Francis Galton has no competitor in regard to the variety and versatility of his researches. So various and versatile, indeed, have these researches been ...

Controlling our genetic destiny has long been a hankering of the “educated” class since Darwinian evolution caught the fancy of the elite. The term eugenics was coined by Darwin’s cousin, Francis ...

Francis Galton, the prolific 19th century psychologist and founder of eugenics, distributed a questionnaire in 1880 that revealed 12 out of 100 men could not visualize their own breakfast table.

THE LIFE STORY OF A SCIENTIST; Francis Galton the Anthropometrist Writes Some Highly Interesting Memories of a Long and Honorable Career.

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 ...

The value of this is inestimable, for Galton scattered his papers widely, and many are not readily accessible. The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. By Prof. Karl Pearson.

Pope Francis waving to attendees before a Mass in Cuba in 2015.Credit...Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin ...

However, the theory of race improvement was originally put forth in 1893 by the noted British scientist Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, as the science of “eugenics.” ...

Inspired by a silenced early stage of the English scientist Francis Galton, I call this [by analogy] a viticulture of both care and the improvement of the person in relation to the community and ...