![]() ![]() Erasmus Darwin and Samuel Galton were founder members of the famous Lunar Society of Birmingham, whose members included Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood, Priestley, Edgeworth, and other distinguished scientists and industrialists. The Galtons were famous and highly successful Quaker gun-manufacturers and bankers, while the Darwins were distinguished in medicine and science.īoth families boasted Fellows of the Royal Society and members who loved to invent in their spare time. His father was Samuel Tertius Galton, son of Samuel "John" Galton. ![]() Unfortunately this proposal, based on incomplete scientific understanding, is not only morally questionable but has been abused by those such as the Nazis in justifying genocide.įrancis Galton was born on February 16, 1822, near Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England, and was a cousin of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, sharing the common grandparent Erasmus Darwin. His most controversial work was in eugenics, in which he proposed that humankind would benefit from encouraging those who exhibited "good" characteristics to marry and produce offspring, and conversely discouraging those exhibiting undesirable characteristics, which he expected to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable qualities. ![]()
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