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A life of Sir Francis Galton : from African exploration to the birth of eugenics /
A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was an African explorer, the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, a statistician, and the founder of the eugenics movement. This text is a portrait of this Victorian polymath.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was an African explorer, the meteorologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerprints to identify individuals, a statistician, and the founder of the eugenics movement. This text is a portrait of this Victorian polymath. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-397) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423761227 9781423761228 1280531460 9781280531460 9786610531462 6610531463 0195349431 9780195349436 |