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Founder Of Eugenics Crossword Clue

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• English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)

28%7 The first name of the English polymath who coined the term 'eugenics', and was a cousin of Francis Galton and James McKeen Cattell
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• American psychologist (born in England) who developed a broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate research (1905-1998)

• American psychologist and editor (1860-1944)

28%9 Opposite of eugenics
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• the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

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