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
10 feb 2018 · The Darwin Correspondence project spiega che queste parole sono dello zoologo Leonard Harrison Matthews e si trovano nell'introduzione a un'edizione divulgativa dell'origine delle specie del 1971.
Principalmente composta da scienziati, avvocati ed uomini influenti, poté vantare di raccogliere in sé alcuni tra i nomi più prestigiosi del Regno. Dal 1911 fino al 1928 il suo presidente fu Leonard Darwin, uno dei figli di Charles Darwin.
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
Major Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin, was presiding. The five-day meeting saw about 400 delegates at the Hotel Cecil in London. [3] Luminaries included Winston Churchill , First Lord of the British Admiralty and Lord Alverstone , the Chief Justice, Arthur Balfour , as well as the ambassadors of Norway, Greece, and France.