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Nature 415, 19-20 (3 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415019a

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The measure of a Victorian polymath

Garland E. Allen1

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Pulling together the strands of Francis Galton's legacy to modern biology.

Despite Francis Galton's importance to scientific life in the post-darwinian period, only two biographies of this polymath have been written — a voluminous Life, Letters and Labours by his devoted protégé Karl Pearson between 1914 and 1930, and a more manageable attempt by D. W.