''Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development'' is an 1883 book by

Francis Galton 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. Galton produced over 340 papers and b ...

, in which he covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. In this text he also references the idea of

eugenics Eugenics is a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fer ...

and coined the term for the first time (though he had published his ideas without the name many years earlier).

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Text and facsimile
*Inquiries into Human Facility and its Development, ''Nature'' volume 28, pages97–98(1883) * {{psych-book-stub 1883 non-fiction books Works about eugenics Works by Francis Galton