Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is an 1883 book by Francis Galton, in which he covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. In this text he also references the idea of eugenics and coined the term for the first time (though he had published his ideas without the name many years earlier).

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Pre-war academic proponents Brigham Burbank Carrell Davenport Darwin (Leonhard) DeCourcy Ward Elderton Fisher Galton Gates Goldscheid Grant Gruber Günther Guyer Haldane Herseni Holmes Hrdlička Jennings Jordan Kang Key Kraepelin Lenz Lewis London Magnussen Manuilă Mittmann Moreira Munro Nordau Osborn (Henry Fairfield) Pan Pearson (Karl) Perkins Pérez Ploetz Quetelet Rainer Relgis Schallmayer Scharffenberg Serebrovsky Sergi Slater Southard Stoddard Taussig Terman Tesla Thorndike Vacher de Lapouge Verschuer Yerkes
Post-war academic remnants Agar Bell (Julia) Blacker Carl Carter Cattell Coleman Darlington Figueredo Fleischman Garrett Glad Hardin Haldane Hanania Herndon Huxley Ingle Itzkoff Kallmann Kirkconnell Koch Lederberg Lorenz Lundman Lynn MacEachran Magnussen Miller (Geoffrey) Miller (Edward M.) Shockley Muller Murray Nijenhuis Nyborg Osborn (Frederick) Pearson (Roger) Pendell Pitt-Rivers Popenoe Rostand Savulescu Shapiro Verschuer Vining Jr.
Pamphlets and manifestos Hereditary Genius (1869) Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) Degeneration (1892–1893) Gallia (1895) "The Blood of the Nation" (1901/1910) The Training of the Human Plant (1907) Essays in Eugenics (1909) Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911) Mankind at the Crossroads (1923) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924) La raza cósmica (1925) Marriage and Morals (1929) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) Man, the Unknown (1935) After Us (1936) Eugenics manifesto (1939) New Bottles for New Wine (1950) The Marching Morons (1951) The Dance with the Devil (1958) Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973) Beyondism (1987) The Bell Curve (1994) Dysgenics (1996) Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001) Jewish Eugenics (2011) Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy (2023)
Organizations Without significant post-war activity ABCL Alberta Eugenics Board AASPIM AES Carnegie Institution for Science CSHL Co-operative Women's Guild EBNC ERO Carrel Foundation Galton Laboratory German Society for Racial Hygiene Heredity Commission HBF Human Betterment League Immigration Restriction League INED IAAEE International Eugenics Conference IFEO Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry PAA Race Betterment Foundation RHA Rockefeller Foundation State Institute for Racial Biology With significant post-war activity Annals of Eugenics (Renamed "Annals of Human Genetics" 1954) CIS The Eugenics Review (Renamed "Journal of Biosocial Science" 1968) FREED HDF J. Soc. Political Econ. Stud. LCI Mankind Quarterly OpenPsych Project Prevention Repository for Germinal Choice Ulster Institute for Social Research
Related Demographic engineering Dysgenics Genetic discrimination History of eugenics Idiocracy Pedigree chart Raymond Cattell bibliography Ronald Fisher bibliography Selective breeding
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Text and facsimile
Inquiries into Human Facility and its Development, Nature volume 28, pages97–98(1883)
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development at Project Gutenberg

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