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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 · Leonard Darwin (1850–1943) was the fourth son and eighth of 10 children born to first cousins Charles and Emma (nee Wedgwood) Darwin. 1 Leonard showed an early interest in photography and was encouraged by his father in this pursuit.
- Tim M Berra
- 2019
13 lug 2017 · In Leonard Darwin’s first paragraph, he invokes the notion of ‘the laws of natural inheritance’ in which the eugenist must have ‘unquestionable faith’. In fact in 1916, very little in the field of natural inheritance was unquestioned, including so-called ‘laws’.
- 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.
…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.)
Scope and Contents The Darwin archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), together with correspondence and papers of many members of the wider Darwin family. Darwin’s scientific papers include his significant corpus of work on species, evolution and natural selection, and papers relating ...
21 set 2015 · This article discusses the contribution to evolutionary theory of Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), the eighth child of Charles Darwin.
