Hereditary Genius (An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences)

by Francis Galton

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 084464014X
• ISBN13: 9780844640143
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: World Publishing Company
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

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The first quantitative analysis of human mental ability. Galton introduced the notion that mental ability was normally distributed in much the same ways as are physical traits. His strong nativistic perspective served as the point of origin for the nature/nurture debate in its modern form.