The evidence he gathered proved that hypothesis wrong. Galton initially hypothesized that fingerprints could provide useful information about genealogy, race, even social class. To be fair, when Galton later heard of a violent dispute between European travelers and a neighboring African tribe, he sympathized with the Africans, thinking the Europeans should have remembered they were guests in someone else's country.ДЄmong Galton's many contributions to science were discovering the anticyclone, quantifying bell curve distribution with standard deviation, and pioneering the use of fingerprinting. Taking the two as they stood, dog and Damara, the comparison reflected no great honour on the man. She evidently had a vague notion of counting, but the figure was too large for her brain. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive. Once, while I watched a floundering hopelessly in a calculation on one side of me, I observed Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. Yet his opinions of some of its inhabitants were less than charitable. After wandering about without much purpose for several years, he sharpened his ambition and began an expedition to Africa, assimilating a wealth of knowledge about the landscape. After securing a degree, he began traveling. Erasmus Darwin.' In fact, Charles and Erasmus Darwin both might have found some of Galton's convictions a little embarrassing.ДЄ man of means, Galton attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he partied like a Victorian frat boy, and followed up the parties with a nervous breakdown. When reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Galton claimed that he 'devoured its contents and assimilated them as fast as they were devoured, a fact which may be ascribed to an hereditary bent of mind that both its illustrious author and myself have inherited from our common grandfather, Dr. That was Francis Galton's conviction, one that served him well, given his own impressive pedigree. From A Life of Sir Francis Galton by Nicholas Wright GillhamД¬haracter and ability are inherited.

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