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Leonard Darwin. Leonard Darwin in April 1916. Leonard Darwin FRGS (15 January 1850 – 26 March 1943) was an English politician, economist and eugenicist. He was a son of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and also a mentor to Ronald Fisher, a statistician and evolutionary biologist.
13 nov 2017 · Tim M Berra, Commentary: Who was Leonard Darwin?, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 362–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx241
- Tim M Berra
- 2019
Leonard Darwin. Leonard Darwin (1850–1943) was variously an army officer, Member of Parliament and eugenicist who corresponded with Ronald Fisher, thus being the link between the two great evolutionary biologists. Horace Darwin. Horace Darwin (1851–1928) and Ida Darwin (1854–1946) had the following children:
13 lug 2017 · Commentary: Leonard Darwin: politician, eugenist and protector of Darwin heritage. Tom Blaney. International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 355–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx130. Published: 13 July 2017. Article history. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share.
- Tom Blaney
- 2019
The eighth child of famous biologist Charles Darwin, Leonard turned to the cause of eugenics relatively late in life, when he was 61 (Berra, 2019). Darwin was notable amongst Charles Darwin’s sons to be the only of them without an education in the natural sciences.
views on education for the poor. …the British eugenicists, such as Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and president of the 1912 First International Congress of Eugenics, who publicly claimed that the poor were genetically inferior and that spending for their education was a waste of public funds.)
11 dic 2017 · His main message is that the dichotomy is a false one, and that eugenicists should not overemphasize the role of heredity to the apparent exclusion of environmental factors. For Leonard Darwin, there was both a substantive and a strategic reason for taking a more balanced approach.
