| British scientist Sir Francis Galton is perhaps best known as the founder of eugenics, a science devoted to the principle that the hereditary characteristics of human beings can be “perfected”through controlled mating. As part of his extensive research into heredity, Galton measured and recorded selected hereditary characteristics of a large number of people. This effort piqued Galton’s interest in the variation between human fingerprints, leading him to develop a rudimentary fingerprint identification system. |
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