Population genetics owes its origin to Francis Galton.

体遗传学的创立应归功于弗朗西斯·高尔顿。

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IN 1874 Francis Galton, a British polymath, analysed a sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons.

1984年一个英国博学者弗朗西斯·高尔顿，分析了英国科学家的样本，发现其中绝大多数是长子。

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His system was widely taken up until Sir Francis Galton, a colleague, rival and inveterate classifier, realised the individualising potential of fingerprints.

这个系统曾被广泛使用。后来，阿方斯的同事兼对手弗朗西斯·高尔顿，一个分类成癖的家伙，意识到指纹在身份识别中有巨大的潜力。

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Modern fingerprinting goes back to Francis Galton, a 19th-century British scientist who, ironically, helped to pioneer the use of statistics.

ECONOMIST: Fingering fingerprints

Others point to the writings on heredity of Francis Galton, a Victorian, but these days they seem tinged with racism, and no one in Mensa would want to have anything to do with that.

ECONOMIST: Lancelot Ware