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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Sir Francis Galton

Composite "jewish type" circa 1880s.
Physiognomy and Phrenology- composited portraits.
Dalton was a cousin of Darwin and a mathematician, statistician and anthropologist. Developed way to classify fingerprints, terms "nature v. nurture" and "eugenics" he was interested in the question of what was inheritable.

Plus an artist project.

Artist Keith Deitrich CIRCA 2004