Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences
Title page for Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences (1892 edition)
Author
Francis Galton
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Subject
Genius
Publisher
Macmillan Publishers
Publication date
1869
Pages
390
Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences is a book by Francis Galton about the genetic inheritance of intelligence. It was first published in 1869 by Macmillan Publishers.[1] The first American edition was published by D. Appleton & Company in 1870.[2] It was Galton's first major work written from a hereditarian perspective.[3] It was later referred to as "the first serious study of the inheritance of intelligence"[4] and as "the beginning of scientific interest in the topic of genius."[5]
In the book, Galton claimed that the sons of men whom he considered "eminent" in a given profession were more likely to achieve such eminence themselves than if they were not closely related to eminent individuals. He interpreted this pattern as evidence for genetic transmission of human intelligence, without considering the environment.[6] Nicholas W. Gillham stated "He (Galton) dismissed the obvious objection that an eminent father was more likely to find a suitable position for his son than one less fortunate. That is, environment might be important too."[6]
^Galton, Francis (1869). Hereditary genius: An inquiry into its laws and consequences. London: Macmillan and Co. doi:10.1037/13474-000.
^Darwin, Charles (2010-04-22). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Cambridge University Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780521768894.
^Fancher, Raymond E. (June 1983). "Biographical Origins of Francis Galton's Psychology". Isis. 74 (2): 227–233. doi:10.1086/353245. ISSN 0021-1753. PMID 6347965.
^Bramwell, B. S. (January 1948). "Galton's hereditary genius and the three following generations since 1869". The Eugenics Review. 39 (4): 146–153. PMC 2986459. PMID 18903832.
^Eysenck, H. J. (1995-05-11). Genius: The Natural History of Creativity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14. ISBN 9780521485081.
^ abGillham, Nicholas W. (September 2009). "Cousins: Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton and the birth of eugenics". Significance. 6 (3): 132–135. doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00379.x. He dismissed the obvious objection that an eminent father was more likely to find a suitable position for his son than one less fortunate. That is, environment might be important too.
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