Sir Francis Galton, FRS: The Legacy of His Ideas (Studies in Biology, Economy and Society)

by Milo Keynes (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $194.98

  Part of the Studies in Biology, Economy and Society series, this book looks at Sir Francis Galton, a grandson of Erasmus Darwin. In his twenties he won fame as an explorer, writing The Art of Travel . In 1883, he coined the word eugenics by which he meant good in birth and noble in heredity ,