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|description=English scientist, statistician and explorer, known for his studies of heredity and for developing the concept of regression to the mean. An advocate of eugenics. | |description=English scientist, statistician and explorer, known for his studies of heredity and for developing the concept of regression to the mean. An advocate of eugenics. | ||
English anthropologist (1822-1911), also active in exploration and meteorology. He researched heredity, mental imagery and fingerprints, and promoted eugenics; his books include ''Hereditary Genius'' and ''Inquiries into Human Faculty''. {{ctd-source|BCW|7|371-372}}. | |||
|categories=Contributors to The Theosophist | |categories=Contributors to The Theosophist | ||
|ctd rus=Гальтон, Фрэнсис | |ctd rus=Гальтон, Фрэнсис | ||
|approximate duration=1822–1911 | |approximate duration=1822–1911 | ||
|other resources=[https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galton/ Biographical source]; [[Theosophist/Vol6|''The Theosophist'', vol. 6]], October 1884, p. 13-16 | |other resources=[https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galton/ Biographical source]; [[Theosophist/Vol6|''The Theosophist'', vol. 6]], October 1884, p. 13-16 | ||
|quotes=Zirkoff, Boris | |||
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