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According to Wikipedia, Sir Francis Galton was a British polymath and the originator of the eugenics movement during the Victorian era. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also developed the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveyss for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. He coined the phrase "nature versus nurture". His book Hereditary Genius was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness.

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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1673)
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences (1391)
Regression Towards Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature. (1125)
Vox Populi (803)
On the Probability of the Extinction of Families (409)
Natural inheritance. By Francis Galton. (365)
I. Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data (347)
English men of science : their nature and nurture (311)
I.—STATISTICS OF MENTAL IMAGERY (1880) (223)
Composite Portraits, Made by Combining Those of Many Different Persons Into a Single Resultant Figure. (210)
Treasury of human inheritance (210)
Visualised Numerals (201)
Memories of My Life (1910) (196)
Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims (1904) (192)
XII. The geometric mean, in vital and social statistics (176)
Personal Identification and Description (133)
Eugenics; Its Definition, Scope and Aims (108)
Essays In Eugenics (98)
I. Experiments in Pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused (96)
I. Family likeness in stature (95)
One Vote, One Value (1907) (94)
Visualised Numerals (88)
A Theory of Heredity (65)
Exhibition of Instruments (1) for Testing Perception of Differences of Tint, and (2) for Determining Reaction-Time (58)
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (49)
On the Anthropometric Laboratory at the Late International Health Exhibition. (46)
THE MOST SUITABLE PROPORTION BETWEEN THE VALUES OF FIRST AND SECOND PRIZES (1902) (43)
The First Steps towards the Domestication of Animals (43)
The average contribution of each several ancestor to the total heritage of the offspring (42)
On the Construction of Isochronic Passage-Charts (1881) (35)
The Ballot-Box (29)
Dice for Statistical Experiments (1890) (28)
132. The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed Under the Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment. (27)
Numeralised Profiles for Classification and Recognition (1910) (26)
An examination into the registered speeds of American trotting horses, with remarks on their value as hereditary data (24)
V.—DISCONTINUITY IN EVOLUTION (1894) (23)
The Ballot-Box (1907) (22)
Some Results of the Anthropometric Laboratory. (22)
Intelligence (1827) (21)
II. On blood-relationship (18)
Head Growth in Students at the University of Cambridge (1889) (17)
Arithmetic by smell. (17)
Hereditary Stature (16)
Classification of Portraits (1907) (16)
On a Proposed Statistical Scale (1874) (15)
Proposal to Apply for Anthropological Statistics from Schools (14)
Men of science. (14)
History of twins. (13)
Studies in Eugenics (1905) (12)
Classification of men according to their natural gifts. (12)
A Plausible Paradox in Chances (1894) (11)
Notes on the Marlborough School Statistics. (11)
Noteworthy Families (Modern Science). An index to kinships in near degrees between persons whose achievements are honourable, and have been publicly recorded (1906) (10)
The Relative Sensitivity of Men and Women at the Nape of the Neck (By Weber's Test) (1894) (10)
Note to the memoir by Professor Karl Pearson, F. R. S., on spurious correlation (10)
I. Family likeness in eye-colour (10)
The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks. On Their Arrangement into Naturally Distinct Classes, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that Make Them, and the Resemblance of Their Classes to Ordinary Genera (10)
Recent Expedition Into the Interior of South-Western Africa (9)
V. A development of the theory of cyclones (9)
The Art of Travel (9)
Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope and Aims (1904) (9)
On the Height and Weight of Boys Aged 14, in Town and Country Public Schools (9)
GRADES AND DEVIATES: INCLUDING A TABLE OF NORMAL DEVIATES CORRESPONDING TO EACH MILLESIMAL GRADE IN THE LENGTH OF AN ARRAY, AND A FIGURE (1907) (9)
A Geometric Determination of the Median Value of a System of Normal Variants, from two of its Centiles (1899) (9)
Criminal Anthropology (8)
The Origin of Varieties (1886) (8)
II.—Application of the Method of Percentiles to Mr. Yule's Data on the Distribution of Pauperism (1896) (8)
Mr. Francis Galton's proposed 'family registers.'. (1884) (8)
On Recent Designs for Anthropometric Instruments. (7)
III. Method of indexing finger-marks (7)
Anthropometric Per-Centiles (7)
The Diseases of Personality (1895) (7)
Local Scientific Societies (1883) (6)
Objective efficacy of prayer. (6)
Psychology of Mental Arithmeticians and Blindfold Chess-Players (1894) (6)
Anthropometric Statistics from Amherst College, Mass., U.S.A. (6)
FREE-WILL—OBSERVATIONS AND INFERENCES (1884) (6)
Short Notes on Heredity, &c., in Twins (6)
Signaletic Instructions, including the Theory and Practice of Anthropomctrical Identification (1896) (6)
The Relative Supplies from Town and Country Families, to the Population of Future Generations (1873) (6)
Retrospect of Work Done at my Anthropometric Laboratory at South Kensington (5)
Terms of Imprisonment (1895) (5)
The comparative worth of different races. (5)
Record of Family Faculties; Consisting of Tabular Forms and Directions for Entering Data, with an Explanatory Pref (5)
A Rapid-View Instrument for Momentary Attitudes (1882) (5)
Thought without Words (1887) (5)
Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics. (The Herbert Spencer Lecture.) (1907) (5)
Head Growth in Students at the University of Cambridge (4)
The Weights of British Noblemen During the Last Three Generations (1884) (4)
Decipherment of blurred finger prints (4)
A Problem in Eugenics (1905) (4)
Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa, being an account of a visit to Damaraland in 1851 Galton; also Vacation tours in 1860 and 1861. (4)
Measurement of Resemblance (1906) (4)
Studies in National Eugenics (1905) (3)
Remarks on Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue (3)
Restrictions in Marriage (1905) (3)
The tailoring trade (3)
Note on Australian Marriage Systems (3)
Eugenic qualities of primary importance. (1909) (3)
Memories of my life, by Francis Galton...With eight illustrations. (3)
Whistles for audibility of shrill notes. (3)
Prints of Scars (3)
Genie und Vererbung, von Francis Galton. Autorisierte Übersetzung von Dr. Otto Neurath und Dr. Anna Schapire-Neurath. (3)
Tables of Observations (2)
The Cost of Anthropometric Measurements (1884) (2)
Hereditary Deafness (2)
On Stereoscopic Maps, Taken from Models of Mountainous Countries (2)
On Apparatus for Testing the Delicacy of the Muscular and Other Senses in Different Persons. (2)
BOSTON SCHOOL-BOYS. (1892) (2)
Notes on Permanent Colour Types in Mosaic. (2)
The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks: On Their Arrangement Into Naturally Distinct Classes, the Permanence of the Papillary Ridges that Make Them, and the Resemblance of Their Classes to Ordinary Genera (2)
The judges of England between 1660 and 1865. (2)
The |[ldquo]|Identiscope|[rdquo]| (1884) (2)
Life history album; prepared by direction of the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association. (2)
Comparison of the two classifications. (2)
Finger Print Evidence (1902) (2)
II. On the employment of meteorological statistics in determining the best course for a ship whose sailing qualities are known (2)
Workers On Their Industries (2)
Antechamber of consciousness. (2)
Conventional Representation of the Horse in Motion (1882) (2)
Nomenclature and Tables of Kinship (1)
Opening Remarks by the President. (1)
Francis Galton's 'Memories'@@@Memories of My Life (1909) (1)
The American Trotting-Horse (1883) (1)
Finger-Prints in the Indian Army (1893) (1)
Life history album : tables and charts for recording the development of body and mind from childhood upwards, with introductory remarks (1)
The “Identiscope” (1)
Gregarious and slavish instincts. (1)
A Eugenic Investigation ∗ Index to Achievements of Near Kinsfolk of Some of the Fellows of the Royal Society. (1904) (1)
The Opportunities of Science Masters at Schools (1880) (1)
A New Instrument for Measuring the Rate of Movement of the Various Limbs (1)
Address Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, January 22nd, 1889 (1)
THE REASON FOR EUGENICS (1914) (1)
III. Results derived from the natality table of Kõrösi by employing the method of contours or isogens (1)
Essays in eugenics. [Part 1] (1)
Average Number of Kinsfolk in each Degree (1)
Rate of Racial Change that Accompanies Different Degrees of Severity in Selection (1897) (1)
II. The patterns in thumb and finger marks: on their arrangement into naturally distinct classes, the permanence of the papillary ridges that make them, and the resemblance of their classes to ordinarr genera (1)
A Measure of the Intensity of Hereditary Transmission (1899) (1)
Visualised Numerals (1)
Sequestrated Church Property. (1)
Note on the effects of small and persistent influences. (1909) (1)
The observed order of events. (1)
The Distribution of Prepotency (1898) (1)
English peerages, their influence upon race. (1)
Hereditary Colour in Horses (1897) (1)
Sun Signals for the Use of Travellers (Hand Heliostat) (1)
Unconsciousness of peculiarities. (1)
Selection and race. (1)
Early and late marriages. (1)
Influence of man upon race. (1)
Sequence of test weights. (1)
Sir Edward Fry on Natural Selection (1903) (1)
Hydrogen Whistles (1)
Criminals and the insane. (1)
Nurture and nature. (1)
Variety of human nature. (1)
Lands of the Damaras, Ovampo, and Namaquas. (0)
V. Description of the process of verifying thermometers at the Kew Observatory (0)
Breeding for energy (1915) (0)
Head Measures at Cambridge (1889) (0)
On certain verses wrongly ascribed to rogers (1875) (0)
Galton's Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) (0)
20. The Statistical Method in Biology. (0)
Cambridge Anthropometry (0)
Exhibition of Composite Photographs of Skulls. (0)
Mr. Francis Galton's Proposed ‘Family Registers’ (1884) (0)
Geography and East Africa. (0)
Annotations (1905) (0)
Average Number of Kinsfolk in each Degree (1904) (0)
Composite portraits and stereoscopic maps. (0)
Chapter – I Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.3 Concept and Nature of the Gifted and Talented (0)
Preface (1904) (0)
Child Study Reprints (1901) (0)
Kew Observatory and meteorology. (0)
Egypt and the Soudan. (0)
Sociological Papers; Volume II, for 1905 (0)
Hunting and shooting. (0)
The Exploration of Arid Countries (0)
Literary Notes (1903) (0)
Arithmetic Notation of Kinship (1883) (0)
After return home--Marriage. (0)
Possibilities of theocratic intervention. (0)
PAR volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1909) (0)
Comparison of results. (0)
On the Probability that the Son of a very highly gifted Father will be no less Gifted (1901) (0)
On the reported Current in the Suez Canal (1870) (0)
Influences that affect the natural ability of nations. (0)
Genie und Vererbung (0)
Request for Prints of Photographic Portraits (1906) (0)
Extracts from Correspondence between M. Rohlfs Gerard and the Council (0)
Meteorological Phenomenon (0)
Senior classics of Cambridge. (0)
Address before the Department of Anthropology of the British Association, at Plymouth (1877) (0)
Learning to Sing Probing Nature versus Nurture with the Songbird Learning to Sing (0)
The Public Servants of the Future (1889) (0)
The Climate of Lake Nyanza (0)
Short tour to the East. (0)
Additional Instrumental Instructions to Mr. Consul Petherick (0)
Average Number of Kinsfolk in each Degree (0)
North American Pictographs (1887) (0)
Galton's Law of Regression (1914) (0)
Annotations (1911) (0)
South-West Africa. (0)
Nomenclature of Kinship; its Extension (1905) (0)
On the Excess of Females in the West Indian Islands, from Documents Communicated to the Anthropological Institute by the Colonial Office. (0)
Notes and News (1898) (0)
A New Step in Statistical Science (0)
Distribution of Successes and of Natural Ability among the Kinsfolk of Fellows of the Royal Society (1904) (0)
Transmission of Acquired Characteristics (1908) (0)
Analytical Portraiture (0)
Marks for family merit. (0)
The Herbert Spencer lectures : decennial issue, 1905-1914 (0)
Domestication of animals. (0)
Mr. F. Galton's Prizes for Life-Histories (1883) (0)
Imprints of the Hand, by Dr. Forgeot, of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Criminale, Lyon (0)
“Acquired Characters” (0)
Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies of the British Association, Held at Aberdeen (1885) (0)
Exhibition of an Ancient Peruvian Gold Breastplate (0)
Geographical Prizes (0)
A Curious Idiosyncrasy (1896) (0)
Average Number of Kinsfolk in Each Degree (0)
Letter from Francis Galton to Grant Allen (1885) (0)
Childhood and boyhood. (0)
Classification of men according to their reputation. (0)
Wrestlers of the north country. (0)
On American Family Peculiarities in the 18th Century. (0)
Hydrogen Whistles (0)

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