Francis Galton would have been the famous eccentric scientist in any family except the one he was born into. The Darwin, Wedgewood, and Galton families were thick with scientists, and Francis wasn ...

THE LIFE STORY OF A SCIENTIST; Francis Galton the Anthropometrist Writes Some Highly Interesting Memories of a Long and Honorable Career. Share full article Oct. 16, 1909 ...

I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’,” the British polymath Francis Galton wrote in 1889.

One hundred years after the death of Francis Galton, the "father of eugenics", geneticists are increasingly baffled by the nature versus nurture debate, writes Professor Steve Jones.

Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), a cousin of Charles Darwin, once famously made a beauty map of Britain, counting the number of attractive women he saw in each city (London was number one).

Francis Galton: You see, concealed in the shaft of this walking stick is what has now become known as a Galton's whistle, currently calibrated at 12,339 cycles per second, ...