Sir Francis Galton FRS FRAI (/ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was a British polymath and the originator of the behavioral genetics movement...

The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine, is a device invented by Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit theorem...

distribution is occasionally referred to as the Galton distribution or Galton's distribution, after Francis Galton. The log-normal distribution has also been...

from the professional class and included eminent scientists such as Francis Galton. The Society engaged in advocacy and research to further their eugenic...

by year of birth and grouped into generations.) The relationship to Francis Galton, and to his immediate ancestors, is also given. (Note, however, that...

domestic cats, and is used in their training. It was invented in 1876 by Francis Galton and is mentioned in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development...

described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense...

2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012. "Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Darwin". Galton.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved...

which he thought contained determinants (genes). The English polymath Francis Galton, supposing that undesirable traits such as club foot and criminality...

is the inability to visualize. The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880, but has remained relatively unstudied. Interest in the phenomenon...