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A splendidly readable and informative guide to Galton's life, works and impact ... the accounts of Galton's investigations of heredity and their reception make the book so useful and so absorbing ... succeeds remarkably well at communicating the shape and content of Galton's work on the physiology and populational dynamics of inheritance ... it will be the biography for a long time to come. ― Heredity

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"This may well prove to be the definitive biography of the British explorer, a cousin and contemporary of Charles Darwin. Gillham, emeritus professor of biology at Duke University, offers an elegant and complete portrait comparable to Janet Browne's acclaimed life of Darwin."--Publishers Weekly "A detailed intellectual portrait of a complex and creative scientist who nevertheless embodied the morals and principles of an eminent Victorian English gentleman."--Kirkus Reviews "This is a superb biography, a rich tapestry that weaves the threads of Galton's energetic and pr Sir francis galton biography.