This copy of the Life history album was given by his grandmother to George Kimball Clement (1888-1951) soon after his birth Clement was a member of the Class of 1912 of Harvard College. The record will further be of great value to your family and descendants for mental and physical characteristics, as well as liabilities to disease, are all transmitted more or less by parents to their children, and are shared by members of the same family.” Galton, at 80, was dissatisfied with this production and rewrote and republished the Album in 1902, extending its duration to the age of 100. “A trustworthy record of past illnesses will enable your medical attendants to treat you more intelligently and successfully than they otherwise could, for it will give them a more complete knowledge of your ‘constitution’ than could be obtained in any other way…. Modern binders cloth and endpapers, early photograph of Galton pasted on free front. Intended to chart the medical history of an individual from birth until the age of 75, the Life history album, edited by Francis Galton, allows for notes on the genealogy, life, development, marriage, children, height and weight observations, anthropometric information, and photographs in five-year increments. Francis Galton, one of the fathers of human genetics, who coined the term eugenics, published Hereditary Genius (in which he asserted the genetic superiority of the upper classes) in. Hereditary genius Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry by Michael Bulmer.
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