Hereditary Genius
An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences
by Francis Galton
446 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780898755855
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In the 1860s Francis Galton set out to examine the extent to which genius is hereditary. This research led in 1869 to the publication of Hereditary Genius, the aim of which was ""to show" that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world."
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