Francis Galtons Fingerprints, 1892
by Wellcome Images
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Francis Galtons Fingerprints, 1892
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Wellcome Images
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Historical illustration from the title page of the 1892 book Finger Prints by the British anthropologist Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911). The prints shown are his own. Galton was largely responsible for the introduction of fingerprinting as a means of identifying individuals in criminal investigations. Galton's career began as explorer and traveler. In Meteorographica, he founded the modern technique of weather mapping, and discovered the term anticyclone. Galton always stressed the value of quantitative evidence in research. When Charles Darwin's work inspired him into questions of heredity, Galton began to investigate identical twins, height and mental ability, and mathematical ways to express human variation. He invented the statistical measure of correlation and also the term eugenics (breeding selective human traits).
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