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English Victorian version of a Renaissance man, Francis Galton. Galton wore many hats. He was an anthropologist, tropical explorer (Southwest Africa), geographer, sociologist, geneticist, statistician, inventor, meteorologist, and was also considered the father of psychometry,
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
#OnThisDay in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle. https://t.co/7v8tOtLXKc
Sulawesi is bigger than Flores and Luzon, has a more diverse Pleistocene large mammal fauna, and has a much richer archaeological record than most people know. New: The island had more a million years of habitation by early hominins.
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they had a formidable professor, Lucien Ferrero, who must have one of the most experienced and knowledgeable noses in France, and who has personally created more than two thousand perfumes. He had come from Grasse to take the class through its paces, to train young noses in good habits, and, with a little luck, to discover talent that could be
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