* Francis Galton

He was a member of the Darwin – Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.

* 1822 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician ( d. 1911 )

The assessment of intelligence was initiated by Francis Galton and James McKeen Cattell.

Darwin's initial model of heredity was adopted by, and then heavily modified by, his cousin Francis Galton, who laid the framework for the biometric school of heredity.

In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by Francis Galton, co-founder of eugenics, saying " I believe ...

Englishman Francis Galton coined the terms psychometrics and eugenics, and developed a method for measuring intelligence based on nonverbal sensory-motor tests.

Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton conducted wide-ranging inquiries into heredity which led him to refute Charles Darwin's hypothetical theory of pangenesis.

* Bulmer M. G. " Francis Galton: Pioneer of heredity and biometry "

* January 17 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( b. 1822 )

Francis Galton.

* Francis Galton, polymath inventor of the weather map and the silent dog whistle, introduces eugenics.

* February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist ( d. 1911 )

The phrase " Nature versus nurture " in its modern sense was coined by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion of the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement, although the terms had been contrasted previously, for example by Shakespeare ( in his play, The Tempest: 4. 1 ).

His findings led him to oppose contemporary Darwinists, most notably Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who held the occurrence of normal distributed trait variation in populations as proof of gradual genetic variation on which selection could act.

Sir Francis Galton FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911 ), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.

That the Bonheur family was renowned as a family of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin used the Bonheurs as an example of " Hereditary Genius " in his 1869 essay of the same title.

The distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton, and other names such as McAlister, Gibrat and Cobb – Douglas been associated.

Most notable are the writings of Thomas Carlyle and Francis Galton, whose works have prompted decades of research.

Francis Galton ( 1822-1911 ) invented the term anticyclone.

In particular they refer to the work of Francis Galton, who through his eugenicist outlook took a keen interest in the heritability of intelligence, with creativity taken as an aspect of genius.

In Austria and Bavaria the name is spelled as Xaver ( pronounced Ksaber ) and often used in addition to Francis as Franz-Xaver.

Francis Bacon often gathered with the men at Gray's Inn to discuss politics and philosophy, and to try out various theatrical scenes that he admitted writing.

It has been often rumored that she had a number of lovers ( including Francis Drake ), but there is no hard evidence.

Today, the most used edition of the King James Bible, and often identified as plainly the King James Bible or King James Version, especially in the United States, remains the standard text of 1769, edited by Benjamin Blayney and Francis Sawyer Parris at Oxford.

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

Francis Poulenc's Motets pour le temps de noël, Gloria, and Mass in G are often performed.

and Francis Beaumont were among the members ( although it is often asserted that William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh were members of this club, there is no documented evidence to support this claim ).

Tom Swift, Jr .' s Cold War-era adventures and inventions are often motivated by patriotism, as Tom repeatedly defeats the evil agents of the fictional " Kranjovia " and " Brungaria ", the latter a place that critic Francis Molson describes as " a vaguely Eastern European country, which is strongly opposed to the Swifts and the U. S. Hence, the Swifts ' opposition to and competition with the Brungarians is both personal and patriotic.

Unitarian theologian Charles Francis Potter stated about the NWT: " Apart from a few semantic peculiarities like translating the Greek word stauros, as " stake " instead of " cross ", and the often startling use of the colloquial and the vernacular, the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts, both Greek and Hebrew, with scholarly ability and acumen.

Today, many commentators claim that we are living in a post-ideological age, in which redemptive, all-encompassing ideologies have failed, and this is often associated with Francis Fukuyama's writings on " the end of history ".

Like Swamp Fox Francis Marion, Baker always managed to elude capture, often with the help of local citizens.

In 1530, the inhabitants obtained from the Count of the Genevois the privilege of holding two fairs a year, while the valley was often visited by the civil officials and by the bishops of Geneva ( first recorded visit in 1411, while St. Francis de Sales came there in 1606 ).

The first of his works on Francis was Vita Beati Francisci (" The Life of Blessed Francis ", often called the " First Life "), a work on the saint's early life, commissioned by Pope Gregory IX in 1228 at the time Francis's canonization.

The second work, Memoriale Desiderio Animae de Gestis et Verbis Sanctissimi Patris Nostri Francisci (" The Memorial of the Desire of a Soul Concerning the Deeds and Words of Our Most Holy Father Francis " often just called the " Second Life ") was commissioned by Crescentius of Jessi, the Minister General of the Franciscan Order sometime between 1244 and 1247, and reflects changing official perspectives on Francis in the decades after his death.

Air's music is often referred to as electronica ; their form of electronic music was influenced by the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Francis Lai.

Procter's work often embodies a Victorian aesthetic of sentimentality, but, according to Francis O ' Gorman, does so with " peculiar strength "; Procter employs emotional affect without simplification, holding " emotional energy tension ... against complications and nuances.

He later explained to Champfleury and the writer Francis Wey, " It is not often that one encounters so complete an expression of poverty and so, right then and there I got the idea for a painting.

While Bodin's common ground with Machiavelli is not so large, and indeed Bodin opposed the Godless vision of the world in Machiavelli, they are often enough paired, for example by A. C. Crombie as philosophical historians with contemporary concerns ; Crombie also links Bodin with Francis Bacon, as rational and critical historians.

His father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., was, as editor of the Washington Globe, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party during the Jacksonian era, and as a boy Montgomery " often listened to the talk of his father and Andrew Jackson.

The gong man was also played by George Francis Moss Snr. The Gongman was often parodied over the years.

His first name is often written ' Francis ' in English.

The Ecclesiastical Household of the king was headed by the Grand Almoner of France ( Grand aumônier de France ) ( created by Francis I ), most often a bishop.