Francis Galton

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Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath active as a statistician, anthropologist, psychologist, meteorologist, explorer, and geographer who was the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era, contributing extensively to the foundations of behavioural genetics.

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