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Hereditary Character and Talent: As Found Originally in MacMillan's Magazine in 1865

Hereditary Character and Talent: As Found Originally in MacMillan's Magazine in 1865

Galton, Francis

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1947844784
ISBN13: 9781947844780
Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises
Published: Nov 5 2018
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was uniquely positioned to be one of the first to consider how the principles Darwin laid out in his Origin of the Species could be applied to the human race. Indeed, Galton would be the one to coin the word 'eugenics.' In Galton's influential Hereditary Character and Talent, he argued that if physical attributes could be subjected to Darwinian principles of selection, 'mental qualities' could be as well. He generated a list of 'notable persons' in order to demonstrate that intelligence and excellence were hereditary. Today, such applications of Darwinism are cavalierly dismissed as 'pseudo-science, ' but there was a time, not so long ago, when they were simply accepted as pure, straight-forward, rock solid, science. This edition is carefully reproduced from Galton's essay, published in two parts, in MacMillan's Magazine, in 1865.

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