Both Erasmus Darwin and Samuel Galton were founder members of the famous Lunar Society of Birmingham, whose members included Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood, Priestley, Edgeworth and other distinguished scientists and industrialists. The Galtons were famous and highly successful Quaker gun-manufacturers and bankers, while the Darwins were distinguished in medicine and science.īoth families boasted Fellows of the Royal Society and members who loved to invent in their spare time. His father was Samuel Tertius Galton, son of Samuel "John" Galton. He was born near Sparkbrook, Birmingham and was Charles Darwin's half-cousin, sharing the common grandparent Erasmus Darwin. 1.4 Statistics, regression and correlation.1.3 Heredity, historiometry and eugenics.As the initiator of scientific meteorology: he invented the weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale.
He devised a method for classifying fingerprints useful in forensics. As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology (the branch of psychology that concerns itself with psychological differences between people, rather than on common traits). He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term "eugenics" and the phrase "nature versus nurture". He created the statistical concepts of regression and correlation and discovered regression toward the mean, was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and heredity, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. Galton produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime and was knighted in 1909. (Febru– January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
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