English polymath who devised an early method for classifying fingerprints, establishing that fingerprint patterns are unique to each individual and stable over a lifetime, work that proved foundational to forensic fingerprint identification. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era
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an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era
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Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822-17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics.
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