Francis Galton: The Man Who Invented Eugenics

Great Britain in the 19th Century was a hotbed for scientific and technological innovation. Scholars, scientists, inventors, and theorists of the age laid the foundations for many of the wonders of the 20th Century and the contemporary era.

Not all of these inventions and ideas were for the better, however. Even if conceived with the best intentions in mind, they would pave the way for some of the worst horrors that would darken the skies of Europe and beyond.

Today's biography concerns one of the most damaging "scientific" theories ever to be considered by human minds.

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‘A Life of Sir Francis Galton’ by Nicholas Wright Gillham

https://www.scribd.com/doc/93232110/A-Life-of-Francis-Galton

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Volume 25, Number 6-7, June-July 2009

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https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33315

https://galton.org/biography/biography.html

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/origins-eugenics

http://www.buttelake.com/corr.htm#:~:text=Galton%27s%20definition%20reveals%20the%20properties%20of%20the%20correlation,increase%20together%3B%20a%20negative%20correlation%20indicates%20one%20decreases

Eugenics in the UK:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/blue-plaque-stories/eugenics/

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20speople-improving-the-nations-stock-for-great-and-greater-britain-eugenics-in-the-1920s/

Eugenics in the US:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/

Eugenics in the III Reich:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10681287/

Eugenics in Sweden:

https://www.nature.com/articles/37848

Eugenics in the Soviet Union:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21466003/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337291231_The_Concept_of_the_%27New_Soviet_Man%27_As_a_Eugenic_Project_Eugenics_in_Soviet_Russia_after_World_War_II

https://www.scribd.com/article/428549737/In-The-Twisted-Story-Of-Eugenics-The-Bad-Guy-Is-All-Of-Us-Angela-Saini

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